Biography

Susan Cohn Rockefeller is a documentary filmmaker whose projects have won top prizes at many film festivals. Her recent efforts include producing and directing Making the Crooked Straight which will air with HBO, Spring 2010 (www.makingthecrookedstraight.org) and co-produced A Sea Change (www.aseachange.net). She’s currently in post-production for a documentary about musician Nell Bryden’s tour of military bases in Iraq.

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 has just completed Arctic Prayers, a memoir of her time spent in an Alaskan village teaching community gardening to Inupiat youth.

When she’s not busy creating art, Susan sits on the board of Alaska Conservation Foundation as well as the David Rockefeller Fund. She’s a member of the program committee for The Stone Barns for Sustainable Agriculture, and Chairwoman of Oceana’s Ocean Council. Susan is married and lives with her husband and their four children in New York City.