Early life and education
Rivera was born in Queens, New York City, in 1969, [1] and raised by a Cuban-immigrant family in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights. [2] [3] She moved to Massachusetts following her parents' divorce, and attended high school at The Cambridge School of Weston. She later attended Brown University as a Pell Grant recipient, [4] from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies and was a commencement orator for the class of 1991. [5] Following her undergraduate studies, Rivera earned a Master of Social Welfare degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. In 2008, Rivera received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in public affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas with her dissertation on health policy, Social Inequality in Biomedical Research. [6] [7]
Career
After receiving her master's degree, Rivera was awarded a Presidential Management Internship, which she used to serve in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She continued to work in the department after her internship before moving to Irvine, California, with her husband, where she picked up a role at the University of California, Irvine, as a research review officer. She eventually became the director of research conduct administration. [8]
From 2005 to 2010, Rivera held administrative appointments at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. During this time, she pursued a doctorate at the University of Texas at Dallas; she received her Ph.D. in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Rivera served as an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern. In her additional role as an academic administrator, her final title at the institution was the vice president for research administration. [7] While at UT Southwestern, Rivera co-published with provost and Nobel laureate Alfred G. Gilman. [7] [9]
Rivera moved to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2010. She served as the associate vice president for research until 2014, at which point she became the vice president for research and technology management. During her time at Case Western Reserve, Rivera served on the faculty as an assistant, and later associate professor, of bioethics and pediatrics. [7] As the research and technology vice president, Rivera oversaw a research enterprise of over $330 million, [10] and was a noted authority on human subjects research at the university. [11] In 2015, Rivera traveled to Cuba to forge connections between American higher education and the country, then under a trade embargo. She later visited the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C., to meet with Cuban diplomats in the field of education. [12] A case study by Rivera and co-authors on human research in Costa Rica was published in the journal Ethics and Human Research in 2019. [13]
Presidency of Macalester College
On June 1, 2020, [14] Rivera began serving as the president of Macalester College. An inauguration ceremony (delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic [15] ) was held on October 9, 2021; [16] Minnesota Governor Tim Walz proclaimed it "Suzanne M. Rivera Day" in the state. [17] Her presidency succeeds that of Brian Rosenberg, and marks the first time a woman and the first time a Latino (gender inclusive) has served as Macalester's president. [18] [19] [20]
As Macalester's president in 2020, Rivera offered to pay bail costs of Macalester College students arrested during peaceful protests related to George Floyd or the 2020 presidential election. [21] [22] Later in her presidency, in January 2021, Rivera announced a partnership between Macalester and the Posse Foundation to increase the numbers of Black, Indigenous and other students of color at the college. [23]
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