Susan
Spinella, M.S.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Community and Regional Planning
Assistant Director
Center for Sustainable Communities
Susan Spinella, a
Temple University Ambler alum, provides administrative
support and managerial assistance to the Center
director, Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone.
Susan attended Temple University Ambler from 1997 to
2001 and graduated with a degree in English. She
returned to Ambler specifically to pursue a graduate
degree in Community and Regional Planning. She
received an M.S. in Community and Regional Planning in
January 2004. Susan played a key role in the Ambler
campus winning the state Department of Environmental
Protection’s Rush to Recycle Challenge in 2002;
securing a wind power agreement with Community Energy
for the campus; helping plan EarthFest each year, and
planning the Ecological, Economic, Cultural, and
Intellectual Implications of Sustainability conference
held in 2003.
Prior to returning to the Ambler campus to pursue her
master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning,
Susan spent a year as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee. While in Oak Ridge, she worked
with Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian
Counties, (ADFAC) a small non-profit agency dedicated
to improving or replacing substandard owner-occupied
housing and providing limited emergency needs to the
very low- and low-income families of the Appalachian
counties.
