Susan Shaer

Susan Shaer is the executive director of Women’s Action for New Directions. She has been a political activist for over 30 years, consulting with progressive candidates, pioneering networks to encourage women to run in Massachusetts, directing the Clearinghouse for Women Candidates at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and managing and consulting on campaigns. As executive director of WAND, Susan chairs Win Without War, and headed Project Abolition, the National Coalition for Peace and Justice and other national projects on arms control and disarmament. She is part of the implementation team to reconstruct the peace and security community. Tel: 781.643.6740 / Email: shaer@wand.org.

Women’s Action for New Directions empowers women to take political action; to change our culture and our national priorities toward peace and real security and away from militarism and violence. www.wand.org.