Speaker Details
Dr
Sue Evans
President, StartREAL Foundation USA
Biography:
Sue Ann Evans is President of StratReal Foundation USA, a private, not-for-profit, grant giving foundation in the United States. This foundation is corporate sponsored, with offices in Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and New Jersey. The mission primarily focuses on cultural arts education, and often working closely with institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles. Ms. Evans works closely with these institutions to foster programs involving educators and children in challenging communities. She also works with scholarship/mentorship recipients, and serves to develop programs internationally with a distance learning webinar series. Ms. Evans is dedicated to finding ways to integrate philanthropy with educational and cultural institutions.
Ms. Evans, though born in New York, was raised in Toronto, Canada. Her BA studies brought her back to the US, pursuing both Economics and Art History undergraduate, at University of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College. Following, earned an MFA at Pratt Institute in New York, and has engaged in post-graduate teaching at Cornell University.
In New York Ms. Evans has worked for many years integrating Special Needs programs, such as AHRC, with a variety of New York based cultural institutions, such as Lincoln Center and the Hayden Planetarium. She has also worked as a private art consultant and managed world recognized private art collections and libraries. Ms. Evans also spearheaded her own atelier, inviting internationally known artists and museums to create historically significant art portfolios.
Ms. Evans currently lives with her husband and two children in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Status: Pending
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