Susan Stevenson

Susan Stevenson is a consultant for organizations focused on improving education and early childhood. From 2010-2016, Susan served as Executive Director of Flamboyan Foundation in Washington, D.C. As founding Executive Director, Susan led the effort to create Flamboyan’s unique approach to family engagement, which focuses on building teacher and school-level capacity to engage with families authentically and meaningfully so children succeed. Susan also led partnership and organizational development at Flamboyan, helping invest funders and city agencies and growing the Flamboyan team to over 25 talented individuals. Under Susan’s leadership, Flamboyan developed a close collaborative partnership with D.C. Public Schools, which is now a national leader in family engagement, and built successful partnerships with many local and national teacher and leader preparation organizations.

Through the combined efforts of Flamboyan staff and partners, in Washington, D.C. today over 1,100 teachers and school leaders have been trained, 54 schools (public and public charter) are implementing intensive family engagement initiatives, and over 40,000 home visits have been performed, including 13,000 in the 2015-16 school year alone. In addition to overseeing the rapid growth of Flamboyan’s family engagement efforts, Susan spearheaded the effort to identify and leverage $3.5 million in additional funding for family engagement during her tenure. She also oversaw the completion of an external evaluation of home visits in DC, which found positive associations between teachers’ home visiting practices and student literacy and attendance.

Prior to joining Flamboyan, Susan co-directed United Way America’s “Success by 6” initiative, a national network of early childhood organizations. She also worked in international development, serving as Vice President, Latin America and Vice President, International for Ashoka, where she led a team of 75 people in 34 offices worldwide to support the efforts of social entrepreneurs. Susan also worked as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in New York and Argentina. She started her career as a Program Assistant for Save the Children in Bolivia.

Susan earned her Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Spanish from Indiana University. She was the 2016 recipient of the Jocelyn Graves national award for Distinguished Service to Public Education. Susan lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, David Littleton and two teenage daughters.

Susan’s first involvement with AMIGOS was as a volunteer in Oaxaca, Mexico and Olancho, Honduras. She then spent three years on staff, as a Project Supervisor in Tlaxcala, Mexico, an Assistant Project Director in Michoacan, Mexico, and a Project Director in Costa Rica. Susan serves on the Board of Directors of Amigos and is the mother of AMIGOS volunteer Allie Littleton.