Suzanne C. Engis the program coordinator for the Education and Career Development Research Program and the Nontraditional Career Resource Center (NCRC) at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. Her work at the Center involves the coordination of summits, events, meetings, residential programs, and workshops. She is the vital liaison to educator, parents and students for the NCRC and its summer High School residential program and Middle School TALE program. She also works closely with the Gender Parity Council on Women in Science & Technology and Women in Law initiatives and aids in promotional areas of marketing support particularly for the Nontraditional Career Resource Center and the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education.
Before coming to the Center for Women and Work, Suzanne worked at the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, as a Colloquium and Talk Series Planner, she developed guidelines and implemented policy for speakers and committee members. Also as an Executive Director for Middlesex County Habitat for Humanity, she was a vital liaison to the President, the North Eastern Regional manager, Board of Directors and volunteer staff. She also created a Habitat Chapter at Rutgers University. At SpeakEasy M.E.D.I.A., Inc. she was the personal assistant to the President, who is an author and a former CNN correspondent. Her proudest achievement to date has been raising her children, as a stay-at-home mom for almost twenty years.
Suzanne has an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is highly motivated, productive, and goal-oriented, with an innate ability to see implications of actions and ideas. One of her major strengths is the capacity to promote team collaboration for optimum results. She is delighted to be part of an innovative and motivated Center that believes in equity for all.