Susan Eaton
Susan E. Eaton is the Professor of the Practice and Director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She also teaches at the Harvard University Education. Eaton's work has centered around philanthropy, social policy, civil rights in education, school desegregation, racial and ethnic diversity and inclusion in K-12 schools, as well as immigration-related practice and policy at the state and local levels. She is the author, most recently, of Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best (The New Press), which takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. Her other books include, The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial; The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line; and Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education (The New Press). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Nation, and many other publications. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.