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Activism

Over the past thirty years, Susan has dedicated her efforts toward founding and supporting innovative organizations that work to advance positive social change.

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Susan is a Founder of Impact Partners. The award-winning documentary film organization is dedicated to funding independent storytelling that sheds light on critical social issues including equality, health, social justice and environmentalism.

Photo (L-R): Susan pictured with fellow environmental Robert F Kennedy, Jr. and Louis Psihoyos, Director of The Cove

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Susan co-founded the Christian Center of Park City, a community resource center that offers basic needs services, including a food pantry, and counseling and care support. Focusing primarily on the population centers of Summit and Wasatch Counties, CCPC serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender. The CCPC is celebrating its 20th year as Park City’s leading networker of community resources.

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Susan serves on the Harvard Divinity School Dean’s Council, whose vision is to provide an intellectual home where scholars and professionals from around the globe research and teach the varieties of religion, in service of a just world at peace across religious and cultural divides.

Photo: Susan addresses students and faculty at the HDS Dean’s Council in 2012.

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Susan is a longtime supporter of the International Justice Mission, a global organization working on a solution to end slavery and human trafficking. 

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Susan is a passionate advocate and supporter of the NMWA and its Women, Art and Social Change Initiative, which aims to right the balance for women artists and empower those women as catalysts for change.

Photo: Susan with Charles Gibson, News Anchor, and Susan Fisher Serling, NMWA Director.