Susan Matteucci
Founder,
Executive Director
Susan Matteucci is the founding Executive Director of Southwest Creations Collaborative (SCC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Southwest Creations Collaborative is a successful contract manufacturing social enterprise with a mission to alleviate poverty and build economic and education opportunity across generations. Founded in 1994, SCC proves that a market-driven business can be grounded in a social vision – paying family-supporting wages, investing in the skill and knowledge development of over 110 employees, providing quality onsite, low-cost childcare, adult education and advocating for social change. SCC believes that if a woman is given an opportunity to earn income, she will spend it on her children first – a strategy shared by many projects across the world.
Previously Susan worked for the Women’s Self-Employment Project in Chicago where she started the Full Circle Fund, the first US microlending urban adaptation of the Grameen Bank peer group lending model.
She is the Advisory Board President of Breakthrough Santa Fe, a program that helps motivated students in grades 7-12 from underserved public schools be the first in their families to go to college. She also serves on the NM Davis Scholars committee. In 2016, she became a member of the International Women’s Forum – New Mexico.
Susan has a BS from Northwestern University and a Master of City Planning from MIT. She lives in Santa Fe with her husband Mike Loftin and has two adult sons who were raised in the SCC daycare.
SCC Client List
3form | Utah
Abl | New Mexico
Amarantha | New Mexico
Autumn Teneyl | Colorado
Blue Thistle Design | New Mexico
Bon Marche | New Mexico
Canvas | New York
Clariant | New Mexico, International
Cucuyo | California
Designers Guild | UK
Dorsey Helman | New Mexico
Erin Adams Design | New Mexico
Floating World | New Mexico
G&K Services | New Mexico
Heritage Hotels & Resorts | New Mexico
Jonathan Adler | New York
Kiwi Industries | New Mexico
Le Roar | New York
Magic Cabin Dolls | Virginia
Martin & Barnett | California
Maude Andrade Designs | New Mexico
máXimo | New Mexico
Mimi Green | New Mexico
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Maya Romanoff | Illinois
Sachi Organics | New Mexico
Sense Clothing | New Mexico
Snug Organics | Colorado
Snuppets | Florida
Susan Neal Designs | New Mexico
Susan Todd Designs | New Mexico
Tewa Tees | New Mexico
The Fabric Merchant | New Mexico
Walmart.com
West Elm | New York
Woolyhoodwinks | California
YAFL Cheerleading | New Mexico