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'''Suzanne M. Rivera''' (born 1969) is an American bioethicist, science policy expert, and president of [[Macalester College]]. She is the first female and first Latina president in the college’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/|last=|first=|date=February 3, 2020|website=WCCO 4 CBS Minnesota|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{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/|url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref>

After earning her Master of Social Work at [[University of California, Berkeley|the University of California, Berkeley]] in 1993, she worked for the U.S. [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Department of Health and Human Services' Administration]] for Children and Families in San Francisco, California. She moved to Irvine in 1996, where she began her career in research administration and research ethics, first as a review officer in UC Irvine's Office of Research Administration, and eventually becoming the Director of that office.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Suzanne Rivera, Ph.D., M.S.W.|url=https://community.chronicle.com/people/1149-suzanne-rivera-ph-d-m-s-w/profile|last=Rivera|first=Suzanne|date=|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education Community|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> She pursued a doctorate in Public Administration at the [[University of Texas at Dallas]], earning her Ph.D. in Public Affairs (health policy) in 2008, while working at the [[University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center]] in the office of the provost and research services under [[Alfred G. Gilman|Alfred G Gilman]].

She has done field research in Costa Rica,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Householder, M., Solano-Lopez, A. L., Muñoz, D. and 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|via=}}</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.

She is active in social justice and equity initiatives. She is a member of the [[Association of American Universities|American Association of Universities]]’ (AAU) Task Force on Strategies for Reducing Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination. [[Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities]]' (HACU) Academia de Liderazgo.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2019 |title=5 questions with… Vice President for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera |url=https://thedaily.case.edu/5-questions-with-vice-president-for-research-and-technology-management-suzanne-rivera/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 27, 2020 |website=The Daily}}</ref>

Rivera's husband, Michael Householder, is a scholar of Early American Literature and author of the book Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter (Ashgate, 2011). They met at Brown University. They have two children together.<ref>{{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/|url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref>

* Julia Jacobsen Distinguished Service Award, [[National Council of University Research Administrators]] (NCURA), 2018<ref>{{Cite web|title=NCURA Julia Jacobsen Distinguished Service Award|url=https://www.ncura.edu/MembershipVolunteering/Awards/NCURAJuliaJacobsenDistinguishedServiceAward.aspx|last=|first=|date=|website=National Council of University Research Administrators|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref>

* Diversity Leadership Award, [[Case Western Reserve University]], 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Annual Inclusion and Diversity Achievement Awards|url=https://case.edu/diversity/programs/annual-inclusion-and-diversity-achievement-awards-and-luncheon/previous-winners|last=|first=|date=|website=Case Western Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

* Alumni Distinguished Service Award, [[Brown University]], 2001<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alumni Service Award|url=https://brunonia.brown.edu/alumni/volunteer/info/alumni-service-award|last=|first=|date=|website=Brunonia|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref>

* {{cite book|author1=Holly Fernandez Lynch|title=Specimen Science|author2=Barbara E. Bierer|author3=I. Glenn Cohen|author4=Suzanne M. Rivera, eds.|date=2017|publisher=Cambridge: The MIT Press|isbn=9780262036108|location=|pages=}}

* {{Cite book|last=Rivera|first=Suzanne|title=Institutional Review Board Approval|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|year=2011|isbn=978-1605477480|editor-last=McPhaul|editor-first=M.J. and Toto, R.D.|location=Philadelphia|pages=}}

* {{Cite book|last=Rivera|first=Suzanne|title=Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future|publisher=MIT Press|year=2014|isbn=9780262526210|editor-last=Cohen|editor-first=I. Glenn and Holly Fernandez Lynch|location=Philadelphia|pages=|chapter=Reconsidering Privacy Protections for Human Research}}<nowiki></ref></nowiki>