Areas of Interest: Renewal of American democracy, education, civic engagement in international and public policy.
Susan Graseck is the founding director of the Choices for the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, a national education initiative that serves as the outreach component of the Watson Institute's programmatic structure. The program was established in 1988 to engage students at the secondary level in consideration of the historical roots and current realities of the most pressing international concerns of our day. The program now reaches out to thousands of teachers and their secondary level students throughout the country through its curriculum resources, professional development programs, and Capitol Forum initiative. Graseck has a background in K-12 teaching. Before coming to the Watson Institute, she was the executive director of the Topsfield Foundation, co-director of Options: A University Outreach Program on International Issues, and a founding member of the Board of Access: A Security Information Service in Washington, D.C. Graseck serves on the board of directors of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (and the Study Circles Resource Center), and as an advisor to Global Nomads Group and to Americans for Informed Democrac