Susan Swartz
Secretary
Professional Experience:
Susan's education includes undergraduate in Industrial Design and graduate in Architecture which has led to a career of almost 40 years in the Exhibit industry with specific skills in design, fabrication, installation & services for in-person and/or virtual: exhibits, environments, events, and tours.
She is currently the National Purchasing Director for a domestic and international company. She oversees a team of seven whose responsibilities include handling all project expenditures, fabrication inventory, and tooling, implementing all procurement procedures and practices, and the handling of all vendor agreements and payables.
Dog Experience:
Susan joined GRRA after moving from the northeast in 2006, where she was a volunteer with Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue. She started doing home checks and fostering. Roux was her first GRRA adoption "foster failure", later to be followed by Teddy and now Bradshaw. Bradshaw and Susan are a registered team with the Alliance of Therapy Dogs through CAREing Paws. To date, Susan has fostered over 40 dogs for GRRA. She has also worked on the annual GRRA "Rescue Romp" celebration. Susan took on the role of Adoption Day Coordinator in 2008 and continues to enjoy meeting the GRRA foster dogs and the potential adopters each month. She served as Secretary for GRRA in 2022 upon the death of the Secretary and continues to fill that vital position in addition to Meet & Greet events and foster homechecks.
