Susan is the Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, heir to the legacy programs of the E.F.Schumacher Society. She led the development of the Schumacher Center’s highly regarded lecture, publication, conference, seminar, and library programs. These programs established the Schumacher Center as a pioneering voice for a new economy shaped by social and ecological principles. Over the past 35 years, Susan has maintained a deep commitment to implementing projects for the commons, such as land trusts, micro-lending and local currency initiatives.
While deeply engaged with the history and theory of a new economy and its implications for the transformation of our relationship to land, labor, and capital, Susan Witt has simultaneously worked to place theory into practice in her home region of the Berkshires, with projects such as community land trusts, local currencies and community supported industry.