Susan Rockefeller is a documentary filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and jewelry designer. Her film projects have won top prizes at film festivals across the United States and around the world. Her recent efforts include producing and directing the HBO Documentary film "Making the Crooked Straight" and co-produced the internationally-acclaimed film "A Sea Change." She is currently in post-production for her latest documentary, "Striking a Chord", about the impact music has on American soldiers deployed abroad.

Susan is the designer and founder of a new cause-inspired jewelry line called Rocknrola.

Susan has also written several career-oriented books, including the ground-breaking Green At Work that helped usher environmentally-friendly jobs into nontraditional arenas such as art, architecture, marketing, finance and more. Susan recently completed Arctic Prayers, a memoir of her time spent in an Alaskan village teaching community gardening to Inupiat youth.

Susan is a on the board of directors at Oceana, and she serves on the boards of the Alaska Conservation Foundation as well as the David Rockefeller Fund. She is a member of the program committee for The Stone Barns for Sustainable Agriculture and she serves on the Advisory Board of Audubon's Women in Conservation.

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