Leadership Development, Education Policy, Strategic Communications

Susanna Cooper works to improve public education at all levels, with projects spanning early education, K-12 and higher education.

Susanna is the founding Executive Director of Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research, Special Advisor to the Stuart Foundation, President of the Board of Directors of EdSource and a director of the James B. McClatchy Foundation. She consults to select clients in the arenas of PreK-14 education and child welfare.

Her professional experience includes leadership and policy development, vision setting, project initiation, development and management, coalition building, strategic communications, advocacy, philanthropy, and eight years as senior advisor to the President pro Tempore of the California State Senate.