Susan F Rice

Dr. Rice is a management consultant on fundraising for non-for-profit organizations with her firm, SFR Consulting, and is a senior consulting associate with Brakeley Briscoe Inc. Prior to establishing her business, Dr. Rice was the president and chief executive officer of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. Before this appointment, Dr. Rice was employed as vice president of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) in Washington, D.C. She is a charter founder of the Women’s Refugee Commission and serves on the boards of the UCLA Foundation, the Los Angeles League of Women Voters Education Fund, Radlink, Inc. – a digital medical imaging company -- and is an officer of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Indiana), Pepperdine University Board of Regents and the Foundation for Philanthropy of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Dr. Rice earned her doctorate in education from Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. She holds an MPA degree from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame.