Founder And Executive Director

SUSAN C. STRONG, Ph.D., founded the Metaphor Project in 1997, to assist progressives and liberals in mainstreaming their messages by framing them as part of the ideal American story. She brings a broad range of experience to her work with the Metaphor Project--from academic to activist.

From 1972 to 1985. she  taught communication about contemporary issues at U.C. Berkeley's Rhetoric Department, and also at the Communications Department of St. Mary's College, Moraga  (1982-1985). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature; her thesis was on a topic about political metaphor in narrative. Since leaving the academic world, she has continued to do research in the fields of American Studies, American political rhetoric, communications, metaphor and social change, framing and other topics relevant to the work of The Metaphor Project.

Beginning in 1985, she focused more of her work on being an activist leader, non-profit staff writer, and columnist about issues of peace, environment, and ecological sustainability. She is a former Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic Conversion (Mountain View) and a former Peace Action National Board member, representing California. She also served as National Peace Action Strategy Co-Chair and was a co-founder of the original Peace Action Peace Economy Campaign. She was a co-founder of The 'Who's Counting?' Project as well.

Her writing has been published on Alternet, Common Dreams, in The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee and nationally syndicated by Pacific News Service and The Progressive Media Project, among many other venues. She also blogs on The Daily Kos, where her screen name is SusanCStrong.

Metaphor Project Board Members are listed on the next page.