Suzanne Le Menestrel, Ph.D., CAE is SRCD’s Executive Director. Dr. Le Menestrel is the chief administrative director at the Society and furthers the strategic goals of the Society through the implementation of scientific initiatives in collaboration with our staff and Governing Council. Before joining SRCD, Dr. Le Menestrel was a Senior Program Officer in the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where she directed five consensus studies on the well-being of children and families. Prior to her tenure with the National Academies, she was the founding national program leader for youth development research at 4-H National Headquarters, U.S. Department of Agriculture and was a research scientist at Child Trends. Dr. Le Menestrel was also a founder of the Journal of Youth Development and chaired its publications committee. She has published in numerous refereed journals and has been an invited member of research advisory groups and not-for-profit boards of directors, including the Consortium of Social Science Associations, and is a volunteer mentor for the Dream Project. Dr. Le Menestrel holds a B.S. in psychology from St. Lawrence University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in human development and family studies from The Pennsylvania State University. She also has a nonprofit management executive certificate from Georgetown University, and she is a certified association executive and Gold Award Girl Scout.