Susan Culp is the Principal of Wallace Hill Consulting, LLC and has more than 25 years of experience in natural resource management, research and policy analysis, conservation advocacy, community engagement, collaboration and coalition building, and issue and political campaign management.

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Susan has worked for leading land use policy organizations including the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Babbitt Center for Land & Water Policy; leading conservation organizations including The Nature Conservancy, Sonoran Institute, and League of Conservation Voters, and a range of local and regional non-profit organizations.   

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Her board service includes serving as the past chair and co-founder of the Friends of Tucker Mountain in Newbury, Vermont.  Past board service includes Vermont Woodlands Association, Alliance for Vermont Communities, Friends of the Verde River, and RiversEdge West (formerly the Tamarisk Coalition). She is currently serving as the chair of the Town of Newbury Selectboard. 

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Over the course of her career, she has served many roles in nonprofit leadership in a variety of settings - holding positions both as senior executive staff in the nonprofit sector, as well as serving in critical officer leadership positions on the boards of directors for numerous nonprofit corporations.  She has a broad range of experience on a variety of conservation policies issues, including public and state trust land management, sustainable development, land use planning and management, legislative lobbying and advocacy and sustainable recreational planning.  where she had oversight over research, analysis and tool development projects pertaining to state trust land management, smart growth and sustainable land use planning and development, and climate resiliency and adaptation planning.

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Prior to founding Wallace Hill Consulting, Susan was the Principal for NextWest Consulting, LLC,  a consulting practice focused on recreation, land use planning, and large landscape conservation issues.  Before that, she was the project manager for Western Lands and Communities (a joint program of the Sonoran Institute and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy); and was the Executive Director of the Arizona League of Conservation Voters.

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Susan holds a B.A. in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MPA in public administration and policy with a focus on natural resources from the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Business and Public Administration. Susan lives in Newbury Vermont, where she and her husband Peter manage and enjoy their forested property.​