Susan Keenan Wright is a Board Member of The Suzanne Wright Foundation. She is the Vice President of Marketing & Membership at the Palm Beach Civic Association, and has over 20 years of marketing and media experience. Prior to joining the Palm Beach Civic Association, she was senior vice president for a private wealth management firm with six offices across the state of Florida. Prior to this, Ms. Keenan was a reporter, producer and news anchorwoman for top-market television stations across the United States.
Susan serves as a director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Regional Board of Governors, the Town of Palm Beach United Way, the Fellowship for Christians and Jews, and the Massachusetts General Hospital Leadership Council for Psychiatry. She is the founding co-chair of the National Committee for the Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and a member of The Order of St. John.
Susan has served in leadership roles for the Children’s Home Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Mary Rubloff YWCA Harmony House, Pat Reeves Village for Homeless Families with Children, Center for Family Services, American Red Cross, South Florida Science Museum, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, H.O.W., the Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation, and the Palm Beach Day Academy. She received the Woman of Distinction award from Palm Beach Atlantic University and the Association of Fundraising Professionals Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year award.
Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Susan attended UCLA and received her Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, in organizational management from Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she was awarded the Leadership Award. She earned a Master degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from American Intercontinental University.