Suzana helps drive the Skoll Foundation’s “Connect and Champion” strategy and operations, optimizing the Foundation's brand, platform, and network—some of its largest catalytic assets.
Guided by a core belief in storytelling and advocacy as important change agents, Suzana leads the Champion team, including the public engagement, communications, and creative services practice areas. The team focuses its efforts on engaging and activating audiences to mobilize cross-sectoral support for social innovators driving systemic solutions to the world's most pressing problems.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Suzana built and directed marcom departments and brands for philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, NGOs like the International Center for Transitional Justice, and corporations like IBM/Lotus.
With justice and equity as her north stars from an early age, Suzana started her career as a human rights investigator in her home country of Croatia, working to bring to justice human rights violators during Yugoslavia's civil war in the 1990s.
At the International Center for Transitional Justice, she developed public engagement strategies for national transition efforts including: truth commissions in Peru and Morocco; advocacy initiatives for tribunals in Iraq, the Former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda; and campaigns for human rights in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Syria.
Suzana received a Masters of International Affairs in Human Rights from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
Clean EnergyEconomic OpportunityEducationEnvironmental SustainabilityHealthHealth DeliveryHuman RightsInternational JusticePeacePeace and Human RightsResponsible Supply ChainsSmallholder ProductivitySustainable MarketsWomen's and Girls' EducationYouth Job Skills
Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America
