Susan manages the day-to-day operations of Brown’s ADVANCE program, including program and event coordination, data collection and reporting, and new and ongoing initiatives to support women faculty in the STEM fields  at Brown.  She is working with campus partners in the Dean of the Faculty and Provost’s Offices to provide mentoring programs for faculty and department chair leadership development, and to bring ADVANCE Visiting Scholars to campus.   

Susan  is completing her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Cultural Foundations of Education; she earned a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women's Studies there in 2003.  Her academic interests center on women in American higher education, and feminist theory, pedagogies, and research methodologies.  Her dissertation is a qualitative study of the experiences of women students at a single-sex college that “went coed.”  Susan has served as Research Associate for the Yale University Women Faculty Forum; Director of the Princeton University Women’s Center; Lobbyist and Executive Director for the New Hampshire Women’s Lobby; sexual harassment and assault educator at the University of Rhode Island; and as a lecturer in Women’s Studies.