Co-founder, Susan Witt
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Susan Witt is the Interim Executive Director of the New Economics Institute and was Executive Director of the E. F. Schumacher Society, the predecessor of the Institute. She helped found the Schumacher Society in 1980 and led the development of its highly regarded publication, library, seminar, and other educational programs while at the same time remaining deeply committed to implementing Schumacher’s economic ideas in her home region of the Berkshires. She helped found the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires in 1980 and has been responsible for many of the innovative financing and contracting methods that the Land Trust uses to create more affordable access to land. In 2006 she co-founded the BerkShares local currency program that has won unprecedented international media attention as a model for other regions. She created and administered the SHARE micro-credit program, the precursor of BerkShares, and in 1985 helped Robyn VanEn form the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in this country at Indian Line Farm. Susan Witt writes and speaks on the theory and practice of building sustainable local economies. Once an Executive Director is appointed for the New Economics Institute, Ms Witt will become the Institute's Education Director.

Detailed biography of Susan Witt
Archive of Susan Witt's articles and essays
Article about Susan Witt from The Women's Times (PDF)
New essay on Jane Jacobs by Susan Witt (PDF)