Susan (Sue) Thering, Executive Director of Design Coaltition Institute
Sue founded Design Coalition Institute in 2011 to continue the technical assistance partnerships she developed when she was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sue has 20+ years experience, spanning professional, academic, small business, and nonprofit settings. She holds professional degrees in architecture and landscape architecture, focused on safe, healthy, accessible, energy-efficient housing and communities, and a PH.D. in Environmental Studies, focused on political science and public administration. Sue has devoted most of her career to working with communities that rarely have access to professional services. Sue is a mother and a grandmother, and an author of both academic articles and natural science-based fantasy fiction.