Susan S. Sawyers

Susan S. Sawyers is an early-stage investor in women-led technology companies, a working photographer and strategist with experience in the arts, education and journalism. She advocates for moral leadership and creativity in business, and everyday life.

Sawyers earned a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and she is also a graduate of the International Center of Photography and Grinnell College. She began her career as a legislative aide and French teacher in Washington, D.C. and taught English and wrote for a local newspaper as a Fulbright-Hayes Teaching Assistant in Paimpol, France. After graduate school, Sawyers produced Bloomberg Radio’s Bloomberg EDU, Bloomberg Radio’s award-winning weekly look at education. Her writing and reporting have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Huffington Post, The Hechinger Report and New York Social Diary. She has written about education, philanthropy and women in society.

Sawyers was assistant vice president at Christie’s and then served as director and curator of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. These experiences sparked her interest in fostering the work of living artists.

Sawyers is a founding donor of The 19th News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. She is also a supporter of The New York Women’s Foundation, Determined to Succeed, For Freedoms, a member of Solidaire, and an advisor to The Hechinger Report. She has supported young people as a coach for Do Something and The Future Project and was a teaching assistant at the International Center of Photography. She coaches first generation college and graduate students in New York City.

Susan lives in New York City with her husband, Charles Sawyers, M.D. Dr. Sawyers is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis and the Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.