CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Susan is a regenerative strategist, ecological educator, and the creative force behind Brooklyn Rewilders' growth. Together with co-founder Laena McCarthy, she has built the programs, partnerships, and infrastructure that Brooklyn Rewilders runs on. Along the way, she has guided more than 1,000 children through hands-on ecological education. Since 2022, she has led PS9's community garden, growing community involvement by 350%. She is building Fences of Abundance — a growing network of native berry hedges, freely tended and freely given along city streets across Brooklyn.

The question underneath everything she does is the one Brooklyn Rewilders is built on: how do we create the conditions for the mindset shift that moves us from extraction to reciprocity, from disconnection to belonging, from a world that has forgotten its relationship with the living world to one finding its way back? She carries that question into Brooklyn Rewilders, into her work as a regenerative business coach, and into Reimagining Marketing — an international collective examining the paradigms that shape marketing today and what a genuinely regenerative approach might look like in their place.

Susan holds a Master's in Business for Social Impact and Sustainability, brings deep knowledge of regenerative agriculture and fiber systems, and is endlessly curious about the Indigenous and traditional knowledge systems that never lost the thread the rest of us are working so hard to find again. She is a mother, and believes — with everything she does — that the world her daughter inherits can be wilder, more generous, and more alive than the one we were handed.