Susan Clampitt
Ms. Clampitt has completed six years of conservatory acting training and has served for many years as a consultant to arts-focused and other nonprofit organizations, a role that has involved building and strategic planning as well as board and program development. She held senior executive positions as Director of Arts and Humanities Presidential Appointments at the White House; Executive Director and General Manager of WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC, one of the country’s leading National Public Radio (NPR) stations; Deputy Chair for Programs at the National Endowment for the Arts; founder and chair of America’s first museum education graduate program; Associate Director of Media and Communications at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Curator at the Montclair Art Museum. Appointed by three successive Washington DC mayors, Ms. Clampitt served as Commissioner on the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She is a founding board member and Vice President of the Mosaic Theater Company of DC. She also serves regularly as a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a recipient of the Fast 50 Award for entrepreneurship from Fast Company magazine and is a winner of the Mayor’s Arts Award for service to the arts.
