Susan Wefald

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Susan Wefald, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, brings a lifelong commitment to social change and women’s economic issues. Ms. Wefald is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Foundation and works to ensure the internal and external strategic alignment of all MFW departments, programs and systems.

Before joining the Ms. Foundation in 1996, Ms. Wefald ran a community development consulting business, where she developed curricula and conducted training in the United States and Russia. As the former staff director of the Naugatuck Valley Project, Wefald coordinated the grassroots organizing and economic work of a coalition of unions, churches, and community organizations in Western Connecticut. She is also the former assistant director of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, and a former adjunct faculty member of Southern New Hampshire State University, where she taught the course Community Organizing and Community Economic Development.

Ms. Wefald holds a Master’s in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire State University and a BA from Oberlin College. She is on the board of the Public Health Institute in New York, NY, and Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE).