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Susan Walsh Susan Walsh is the Executive Director of USC Canada, one of Canada’s oldest international development organizations.  Grounded in its history of self-reliant, community-based development work, today USC Canada promotes vibrant family farms, strong rural communities, and healthy ecosystems around the world. Susan initially worked at the Unitarian Service Committee as a Program Officer in the late 1980’s. Before returning to USC Canada in 2004, she served at the helm of the World Food Day Association and worked for over a decade with Canadian Lutheran World Relief as that agency’s Director for Latin America Programs. Susan holds degrees from Simon Fraser University and a doctoral degree from the University of Manitoba where she focused on the resilience strategies of indigenous peoples, particularly their capacity to thrive within complex ecosystems. This anthropological research, which took Susan and her family to Bolivia's southern highlands for a year in 2000, fed a lasting commitment to strategies that promote the legal, cultural, and livelihood rights of indigenous and marginalized peoples. Susan is an experienced trainer in cooperative conflict resolution and university lecturer having taught courses at the University of Winnipeg and Carleton University.  She currently sits on the Board of the Civil Society Alliance for the International Convention on Biological Diversity.

 

 

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