SUSAN SWAYZE
Sue Swayze is the Executive Director of Indiana Family Action, a new statewide advocacy effort for Christian policy concerns. IFA is associated with the national group Focus on the Family Action. A top issue to-date has been Indiana’s opportunity to pass a constitutional amendment to declare marriage as between one man and one woman.
She is also a committee member of the new Indiana Family Action PAC. This is a political action committee created to help conservative and Christian voters make the connection between key values issues and persons running for office.
Sue also lobbies for Indiana Right to Life, a statewide pro-life advocacy organization.
With the Indiana Family Institute, Sue works in the programming area, providing operational and faculty support to the Hoosier Congressional Policy Leadership Series and various marriage and family strengthening initiatives.
A former Vice President with the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Sue has been a lobbyist and policy analyst for eighteen years. While representing the business community, she worked 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 the 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 also 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.
Specializing in planning and management, Sue has a master’s degree from Indiana University, where she was a former occasional adjunct faculty member instructing on public policy and the human service delivery system.
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.
