Director
Suzanne Muchin is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, and is best known for teaching, “Selling Yourself and Your Ideas,” as well as teaching classes in entrepreneurship, innovation and women’s leadership. Suzanne is also Co-Founder and Exec Chair of Bonfire, a company created to ignite the power of women to change the rules of the modern workforce. With her co-founder, Rachel Bellow, she co-hosts the popular Bonfire Podcast. Suzanne is a leader in Chicago’s entrepreneurship community, helping build the brands and social impact strategies for some of the city’s most well-known organizations and initiatives including 1871, MATTER, MHub, Impact Engine and P33. In 2012 she was inducted into the Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. She is on the Board of Directors of 1871, and is an Independent Board Member of Fooda. In 2022, she and her husband David Brown were given the Human Rights Medallion from the American Jewish Committee for their work to create a more enlightened and compassionate society. She lives in the city where she can often be found running or walking on the lakefront, accompanied by her husband or one of her five, adult children, depending on her mood, and theirs.