Since 2025, Suzanne has served as Director of Programming at the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University, where she advances BAI’s mission to catalyze interdisciplinary creative research and practice through programs, resources, and opportunities that support artistic engagement across Brown’s arts community. She is also serving her second term as Chair of the City of Providence’s Art in City Life Commission, helping guide public art policy and artist grantmaking for city projects.

Previously, Suzanne was Program Director at FirstWorks from 2019 to 2025, where she developed performing arts programs that strengthened the city’s cultural, educational, and economic vitality and helped co-produce PVDFest, Providence’s signature annual arts festival. From 2004 to 2016, she held dual roles at Smack Mellon in NYC as Deputy Director and Director of Exhibitions, where she curated and produced large-scale exhibitions and multidisciplinary public programs that expanded visibility and support for under-recognized artists.

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Suzanne has also contributed her expertise to panels and selection committees for organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. Across her career, she has championed artists and their work, led ambitious multidisciplinary initiatives, and built resilient organizational frameworks that connect communities through shared artistic experiences.