Susan Clampitt

For many years, Ms. Clampitt served as a consultant to arts and other nonprofit organizations and foundations in capacity building, strategic planning, board and program development, and executive search. She held senior executive positions as Director of Arts and Humanities Presidential Appointments at The White House; Executive Director and General Manager of WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC, one of the country’s leading National Public Radio (NPR) stations, where she established the station’s first “arts beat,” garnering several national awards; Deputy Chair for Programs at the National Endowment for the Arts, overseeing a $100-million grants portfolio annually; founder and chair of America’s first museum education graduate program; Associate Director of Media and Communications at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Curator at the Montclair Art Museum.