Susan Motley
Susan Motley was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from Du Sable High School in 1960. With a full scholarship she first attended Lawrence College in Wisconsin, but graduated from Roosevelt University, Chicago, in 1969.
During her professional career of over thirty years Motley was course instructor of Philanthropy, Public Policy and Community Change at Loyola University, Chicago, as well as codirector of the Case Studies in Philanthropy Project. She was a senior program officer at the MacArthur Foundation, and a program officer at the Ford Foundation Local Initiative Support Corporation. She also served as a commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission; director of Housing and assistant to the Vice President at Princeton University; and visiting associate professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.
Now retired, Motley continues to serve on several nonprofit boards. As an aspiring writer, she enrolled at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing, attended writing seminars at the the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and was an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation.