Suzanne Rivera: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Jackson Heights, Queens|Jackson Heights]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S.]]

| spouse = Michael Householder, Ph.D.

'''Suzanne M. Rivera''' (born 1969) is an American bioethicist, sciencewho policyis expert, andthe president of [[Macalester College]]. She is the first female and first Latina president in the college’scollege's history.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Macalester Announces Dr. Suzanne Rivera As First Female and Latinx President|url=https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/02/03/macalester-announces-dr-suzanne-rivera-as-first-female-and-latinx-president/|date=February 3, 2020|website=WCCO 4 CBS Minnesota|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref><ref name="twincities_2020-02-03">{{Cite news|last=Verges|first=Josh|date=Feb 3, 2020|title=Macalester's 17th president will be first female and Latina to hold the office|work=Twin Cities Pioneer Press|url=https://www.twincities.com/2020/02/03/macalesters-17th-president-will-be-first-female-and-latina-to-hold-the-office/}}</ref> Rivera’sRivera's presidential Inauguration ceremony was held at Macalester on October 9, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Macalester inaugurates first female, Latino president|url=https://www.startribune.com/macalester-inaugurates-first-female-latino-president/600105213/|date=October 9, 2021|website=Star Tribune|access-date=November 5, 2021}}</ref> Minnesota Gov. [[Tim Walz]] proclaimed it as "Suzanne M. Rivera Day" in the state.<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=Macalester |number=1446913641245257735 |title=Today is officially @macalesterpres Suzanne M. Rivera Day in the State of Minnesota! #heymac 💙🧡}}</ref>

Rivera was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, in 1969. She moved to Massachusetts in 1980, and attended high school at [[The Cambridge School of Weston]]. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from [[Brown University]], and was the commencement orator for the class of 1991. Immediately following her undergraduate studies, Rivera earned a Master of Social Welfare degree at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography: Dr. Suzanne M. Rivera|url=https://www.macalester.edu/president/biography-dr-suzanne-rivera/|access-date=2021-12-13|website=Macalester College|language=en-US}}</ref>

Rivera competed for and was awarded a [[Presidential Management Fellows Program|Presidential Management Internship]] in 1993 and used it to rotate through the Region IX offices of the [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]. She then took a job in the Head Start Branch of the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families in San Francisco, California. She moved to Irvine, California, in 1996, where she began her career in research administration and research ethics, first as a review officer in [[University of California, Irvine]]'s Office of Research Administration and eventually became Directordirector of that office.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Navigator to Facilitator|url=https://news.uci.edu/2001/05/01/navigator-to-facilitator/|access-date=2021-07-19|website=UCI News|date=May 2001|language=en-US}}</ref>

From 2011-20202011–2020, Rivera worked at [[Case Western Reserve University]] (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio. While serving as Vice President for Research and Technology Management, she also served on the CWRU faculty in the Departments of [[Bioethics]] and [[Pediatrics]].<ref name="biography-dr-suzanne-rivera">{{Cite web|title=Biography: Dr. Suzanne Rivera|url=https://www.macalester.edu/president/biography-dr-suzanne-rivera/|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Macalester College|language=en-US}}</ref>

She is the Chair of the Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research ([[PRIM&R]]),<ref name="biography-dr-suzanne-rivera"/> and is an elected Membermember-at-large of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]'s (AAAS) Social, Economic, and Political Sciences section.<ref>{{Cite web|title=VP for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera and Anthropology's Cynthia Beall elected to leadership roles in The American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://thedaily.case.edu/vp-suzanne-rivera-and-anthropologys-cynthia-beall-elected-to-leadership-roles/|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Case Western Reserve University|date=31 January 2020|language=en-US}}</ref> Previously, she was a Boardboard member for the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) and served as an appointed member of the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]]’s's Human Studies Review Board and the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|DHHS]] [[Office for Human Research Protections#Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP)|Secretary’sSecretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections]].<ref name="biography-dr-suzanne-rivera"/>

She has done field research in Costa Rica,<ref>{{Cite journal|lastauthor1=Householder, M., |author2=Solano-Lopez, A. L., |author3= Muñoz, D. and |author4=Rivera, S.M.|date=January–February 2019|title=Reviving Human Research in Costa Rica|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330580818|journal=Ethics & Human Research|volume=41|issue=1|pages=32–40|doi=10.1002/eahr.500004|pmid=30744315|s2cid=73420451 |via=ResearchGate |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406012639/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330580818_Reviving_Human_Research_in_Costa_Rica |archive-date= Apr 6, 2024 }}</ref> and has been an invited lecturer on bioethics for the Ministry of Higher Education in Havana, Cuba, and at [[Mbarara University]] of Science and Technology in Mbarara, Uganda.

Rivera was a member of the [[Association of American Universities|American Association of Universities]]’' (AAU) Task Force on Strategies for Reducing Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination.

She served as First Vice President on the Board of Esperanza, Inc., a non-governmental organization devoted to improving educational outcomes for Cleveland’sCleveland's Hispanic students, and on the governance committees for Cleveland’sCleveland's Fund for Our Economic Future (FFEF) and the Cleveland Water Alliance.

She currently serves on the Boardboard of the [[Science Museum of Minnesota]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Board of Trustees|url=https://new.smm.org/board-of-trustees|website=Science Museum of Minnesota|access-date=June 28, 2021}}</ref> the Nationalnational Boardboard of Directorsdirectors of [[College Possible]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pres. Rivera named to board of College Possible|url=https://www.macalester.edu/news/2021/10/pres-rivera-named-to-board-of-college-possible/|website=Macalester College|date=5 October 2021 |access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> a national college access and success nonprofit; and the National Advisory Board of TeenSharp,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pres. Rivera named to national advisory board for college-access non-profit|url=https://www.macalester.edu/news/2021/08/pres-rivera-named-to-national-advisory-board-for-college-access-non-profit/|website=Macalester College|date=5 August 2021 |access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> an organization that prepares students from historically excluded groups for success at selective colleges and universities. She is a co-founder and member of the executive council of the Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Appliance (LACRELA). Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan named Rivera to the Executive Council for the Young Women’sWomen's Initiative of Minnesota (YWI) in January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Governor's Office selects President Rivera to help guide Young Women's Initiative|url=https://www.macalester.edu/news/2021/01/governors-office-selects-president-rivera-to-help-guide-young-womens-initiative/|website=Macalester College|date=27 January 2021 |access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>

* {{cite journal |lastauthor1=Brothers, K.B., |author2=Rivera, S.M., |author3=Cadigan, R.J., |author4=Sharp, R.R. and |author5=Goldenberg, A.J.|date=April 2019|title=A Belmont Reboot: Building a Normative Foundation for Human Research in the 21st Century|journal=[[The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics]]|volume=47|issue=1|pages=165–172|doi=10.1177/1073110519840497|pmid=30994072|pmc=6587582}}

* {{cite book|author1editor1=Holly Fernandez Lynch|title=Specimen Science|author2editor2=Barbara E. Bierer|author3editor3=I. Glenn Cohen|author4editor4=Suzanne M. Rivera, eds.|date=2017|publisher=Cambridge: The MIT Press|isbn=9780262036108}}

* {{cite journal |lastauthor1=Rivera, S.M., |author2=Brothers, K.B., |author3=Cadigan, J., |author4=Harrell, H.L., |author5=Rothstein, M.A., |author6=Sharp, R.R., |author7=Goldenberg, A.J.|date=June 2017|title=Modernizing Research Regulations Is Not Enough: It's Time to Think outside the Regulatory Box|journal=[[American Journal of Bioethics]]|volume=17|issue=7|pages=1–3|doi=10.1080/15265161.2017.1328899|pmid=28661748|pmc=6089353}}

* {{cite journal |lastauthor1=Goldenberg, A.J., |author2=Maschke, K.J., |author3=Joffe, S., |author4=Botkin, J.R., |author5=Rothwell, E., |author6=Murray, T.H., |author7=Anderson, R., |author8=Deming, N., |author9=Rosenthal, B., and |author10=Rivera, S.M.|date=May 2015|title=IRB practices and policies regarding the secondary research use of biospecimens|url=https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-015-0020-1|journal=BMC Medical Ethics|volume=16|issue=1|pagespage=1–832 |doi=10.1186/s12910-015-0020-1|pmid=25953109|pmc=4426182 |s2cid=12898467 |doi-access=free }}

* {{cite journal |lastauthor1=Rothwell, E., |author2=Maschke, K., |author3=Bothkin, J., |author4=Goldenberg, A., |author5=Murray, T.H., and |author6=Rivera, S.M.|date=March 2015|title=Biobanking research and human subjects protections: perspectives of IRB Leaders|journal=IRB: Ethics & Human Research|volume=37|issue=2|pages=8–13|pmid=26331182|pmc=5854323}}

* {{cite journal |last1author1=Fernandez-Lynch, H., |author2=Bateman-House, A. and |author3=Rivera, S.M.|date=January 2020|title=Academic Advocacy: Opportunities to Influence Health and Science Policy under U.S. Lobbying Law|journal=Academic Medicine|volume=95|issue=1|pages=44–51|doi=10.1097/ACM.0000000000003037|pmid=31599758|doi-access=free}}

* {{Cite book|last=Rivera|first=Suzanne|title=InstitutionalHuman ReviewSubjects BoardResearch ApprovalRegulation: Perspectives on the Future|publisher=Lippincott WilliamsMIT & WilkinsPress|year=20112014|isbn=978-16054774809780262526210|editor-last=McPhaulCohen|editor-first=M.JI. andGlenn Toto,|editor2=Holly R.D.Fernandez Lynch|location=Philadelphia|chapter=Reconsidering Privacy Protections for Human Research}}