Susan Williams grew up in East Tennessee and has worked for over 45 years as a community organizer, a popular educator, a participatory researcher, and a librarian/archivist in East Tennessee. She organized with Save Our Cumberland Mountains and the Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network.

Susan came to Highlander Center as a staff person in 1989. In that time, she has led hundreds of workshops, coordinated the education team, and helped create publications documenting Highlander’s work. She was part of the team that developed Mapping Our Futures, a new Economics and Governance curriculum for communities. She is now a librarian/archivist at Highlander, working to share some of the important movement history with new generations.

She connected with UFE around 1995, attended and supported many training of trainers, worked with UFE staff in the Economic Literacy Action Network in the 1990s’’s, and served previously on the board years ago. She is happy to help on the board again as UFE celebrates 30 years of amazing work.