Susan Feder’s multifaceted arts career culminated in a fifteen-year tenure as a program officer at the Mellon Foundation. Bringing deep knowledge of artists’ processes to bear, she supported programs that enabled opportunities for reflection, experimentation, and risk-taking, resulting in a significant expansion of contemporary arts repertoire. She also developed collaborative, systems-building initiatives on behalf of artists and organizations long under-resourced by philanthropy. Earlier, as vice president of music publisher G. Schirmer, Feder nurtured the careers of composers in the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. She was also editorial coordinator of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986) and program editor at the San Francisco Symphony.  Currently she serves on the boards of several arts nonprofits and foundations.  She is also a principal in SAMBA Filmworks, a company founded by her husband, which to date has produced six of his short narrative films.  Feder holds degrees from Princeton University and UC Berkeley.