Prior to joining the IP, Susan served as the interim director of strategic planning for Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ; as a consultant for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund’s Annual Capital Punishment Training Conference; and as a project manager for ID Media and Draftfcb (now, FCB). Susan has a B.A. in economics from Smith College and an M.F.A. in theater from Columbia University. She is currently a license-qualifying psychoanalytic candidate in training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.