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 Born
in Oakland, California, Susanne Garvey grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula.
She graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School before attending Pomona College on
a California State Scholarship. She was drawn to Pomona after hearing wonderful
stories about the college from her grandmother, Madeline Willard Garvey, a
California native who had received her bachelor’s degree from Pomona in 1911 and
a master’s degree in library science the following year.
After graduating from Pomona in 1974 with a degree in English (Phi Beta Kappa
and Mortar Board), Susanne worked for a year at an antiquarian book store in
Palo Alto. She then moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she received her
master’s degree in English Language and Literature and entered the Ph.D.
program. Deciding against an academic teaching career after achieving ABD
status, she spent a year in the United Kingdom organizing a college-level
semester abroad program.
In 1980, Susanne moved to Washington, D.C., where she spent five years working
for a college semester-in-Washington program. She then moved to Alexandria,
Virginia, where she served for seven years as director of development for
MATHCOUNTS and National Engineers Week – education outreach programs reaching
thousands of elementary and secondary school students across the United States.
Since 1992, she has been director of external affairs for the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, a science research organization with scientific
laboratories in Palo Alto, Pasadena, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., and an
astronomical observatory in Chile. At Carnegie, she organizes public science
outreach programs and works closely with astronomers, earth scientists,
biologists, and environmental scientists to secure private foundation funding in
support of fundamental scientific research. She and her husband live in a
neighborhood of mid-century modern homes in Alexandria, Virginia.
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