Suzanne M Rivera was born on 1969 and is an American bioethicist, science policy expert, and president of Macalester College.
16 Facts About Suzanne Rivera
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Suzanne Rivera is the first female and first Latina president in the college's history.
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Suzanne Rivera was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, in 1969.
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Suzanne Rivera moved to Massachusetts in 1980, and attended high school at The Cambridge School of Weston.
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Suzanne Rivera obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University, and was the commencement orator for the class of 1991.
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Immediately following her undergraduate studies, Suzanne Rivera earned a Master of Social Welfare degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.
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Suzanne Rivera competed for and was awarded a Presidential Management Internship in 1993 and used it to rotate through the Region IX offices of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Suzanne Rivera then took a job in the Head Start Branch of the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families in San Francisco, California.
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Suzanne Rivera moved to Irvine, California, in 1996, where she began her career in research administration and research ethics, first as a review officer in University of California, Irvine's Office of Research Administration and eventually became director of that office.
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Suzanne Rivera has done field research in Costa Rica, and has been an invited lecturer on bioethics for the Ministry of Higher Education in Havana, Cuba, and at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Mbarara, Uganda.
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Suzanne Rivera served as First Vice President on the Board of Esperanza, Inc.
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Suzanne Rivera currently serves on the board of the Science Museum of Minnesota; the national board of directors of College Possible, a national college access and success nonprofit; and the National Advisory Board of TeenSharp, an organization that prepares students from historically excluded groups for success at selective colleges and universities.
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Suzanne Rivera is a co-founder and member of the executive council of the Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Appliance.
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In November 2020, Suzanne Rivera offered to help cover the costs of bail if any Macalester College student was arrested during protests related to the 2020 presidential general election.
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In January 2021, Suzanne Rivera announced a partnership between Macalester College and the Posse Foundation to increase the numbers of Black, Indigenous and other students of color at the college.
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Suzanne Rivera's husband, Michael Householder, is a scholar of Early American Literature and author of the book Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter.