Susan Kruth, J.D.

Senior Program Officer Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

Susan Kruth, J.D., is the Senior Program Officer, legal and public advocacy, for FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). A graduate of the Univeristy of Virginia School of Law, Kruth began by working to protect free speech through a fellowship with the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville, VA. She has also completed civil rights internships with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT & AIDS Project. Kruth is the author of numerous articles, listed in FIRE’s and other online publications; for example, “Professors’ Rights to Free Speech at Risk Nationwide,” The Huffington Post, 25 November 2014.