Susan is a proven fundraising professional and nonprofit leader. She has over 28 years of non-profit fundraising and marketing experience in the Metro Nashville area and has helped raise more than $65 million for the organizations where she has worked.

A frequent instructor on a variety of fundraising and board development topics, Susan is a community leader. She was named as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s 2011 Women of Influence and a 2012 Woman to Watch by the Nashville Medical News. She is an alumna of Leadership Middle Tennessee and Leadership Franklin and past chair of the Williamson County Library Foundation. A member of CABLE, she chaired the 24^th Annual Nashville ATHENA Awards. 

Susan most recently worked with The Heritage Foundation of Williamson County to establish development policies and procedures as well as a capital campaign strategy.  For five years prior, she was chief development officer for Adventure Science Center. Prior to that, she was president and  CEO for PearlPoint Cancer Support for seven years. The prior fourteen years, Susan was vice president of development and marketing for Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art; vice president of resource development for Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee and vice president of external relations for Second Harvest Food Bank. 

Susan served as chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy from 2015-2016. She served on the AFP International Board of Directors from 2001-2006, serving as vice chair for both the Membership Services and External Relations divisions. In 2011, Susan received AFP’s highest volunteer honor as the Barbara Marion Leadership Award recipient and most recently was recognized as a 2020 Distinguished Fellow. She is a past president of the AFP Nashville Chapter. In 2002, Susan was named the Fundraising Executive of the Year by AFP Nashville Chapter.