Susan Naimark

s a co-founder and current Board Chair of the Boston Parent Organizing Network. Naimark has served in leadership roles in several national community development nonprofits. She assisted the start-up of dozens of local YouthBuild programs across the U.S., and supported community development organizations across the NeighborWorks network to expand and strengthen their community building and organizing efforts. Susan served eight years on the City of Boston’s school board, where she instituted community forums to seek broader input on key policy issues. She is a long-time Board member of Community Change, Inc., a Boston-based organization that educates and organizes for racial equity. Naimark has facilitated hundreds of trainings, workshops and dialogues on race, privilege, and creating equitable, healthy communities and organizations, in settings from grassroots groups to national conferences. Her work is driven by the belief that we are all only as well off as the larger community to which we all belong.