G. Susan Nemeth

Director of Development, Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)

As CAWP’s director of development since 1992, Nemeth has helped develop regional and national Forums for Women State Legislators, NEW Leadership™ residential programs for college women, Ready to Run™ campaign training programs for women, and research on women’s routes to elective office. The Center’s public service programs currently serve women in twenty-five states. In addition to managing CAWP’s fundraising, she serves as a public relations specialist, helping to promote new programs and recruit participants.

Nemeth began her public service career with New Jersey Citizen Action in the 1980’s, where she organized a statewide coalition of women’s advocates to lobby for path-breaking Family and Medical Leave legislation and led a successful campaign that gathered 20,000 signatures to contest a public utility rate hike.

A first generation American, Nemeth serves as a volunteer with the American Hungarian Foundation in New Brunswick. She is also active in Princeton where she lives with her family. Nemeth has served on the Board of Trustees of the Princeton Education Foundation. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization and represents Princeton Township on the Mercer County Democratic Committee. In 2008, Nemeth is running unopposed for a seat on the Princeton Township Committee.

Nemeth earned a B.A. from Douglass College, graduating with high honors, and an A.A. from Middlesex County College, where she received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Studies of History and Social Behavior. She recently completed the mini-MBA program at the Rutgers Center for Management Development.