Susan Matteucci is the founding Executive Director of Southwest Creations Collaborative (SCC). SCC is a successful contract manufacturing social enterprise In Albuquerque’s South Valley with a mission to alleviate poverty and build economic and education opportunity across generations. Previously, Susan worked for the Women’s Self-Employment Project in Chicago where she started the Full Circle Fund, the first U.S. microlending urban adaptation of the Grameen Bank peer-group lending model. Susan serves on the board of Breakthrough Santa Fe, on Davis New Mexico Scholarship Committee and is a member of the New Mexico International Women’s Forum. She has a bachelor’s degree in education from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in city planning from MIT.