SUSAN SWAYZE

Sue Swayze is Program Coordinator for the Indiana Family Institute.  She  manages the healthy marriage program, “Hoosier Commitment:  Parents TWOgether for Indiana Families”, a federal grant initiative to bring marriage and relationship enhancement programming to Marion and Hamilton Counties.  Sue also gives operational and faculty support to the Hoosier Congressional Policy Leadership Series and various other marriage and family strengthening initiatives.

Specializing in planning and management, Sue has a master’s degree in Social Work from Indiana University, where she was a former occasional adjunct faculty member instructing on public policy and the human service delivery system.  She has been a lobbyist in the state of Indiana for twenty years.

Sue was the first Executive Director for the Indiana Christian Chamber of Commerce.  She is also a former Vice President with the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, where she represented the business community, working with local and state officials to advocate for business-friendly regulations and legislation on tax and fiscal issues, infrastructure, environmental and local and regional government consolidation.  She also staffed that chamber’s Political Action Committee.

Prior to her years at the chamber, Sue was Policy Director at the United Way of Central Indiana and was active in such issues as child abuse, senior citizen’s services and welfare reform.  She founded the Children’s Coalition of Indiana, a statewide children’s advocacy group which played a key role in the creation of Indiana’s “Kids First” license plate.
Sue is a Class XXI graduate of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Series and a former member of the Junior League of Indianapolis, for which she co-chaired its Public Affairs Committee.  She is also a former board member and volunteer for Outreach, Inc., a street-based ministry program for homeless youth.

Sue also lobbies for Indiana Right to Life, a statewide pro-life advocacy organization.

Most importantly, Sue is a daughter of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom she has pledged her life’s work.  She now approaches the political arena as a mission field for her Christian faith and strives to impact the lives of children and families by promoting marriage and life issues.