WS Chronicle

The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has named Susan Morris as director of Community Resource Development. Morris has taught in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, served as an editor for Carson-Dellosa Publishing, and most recently, has been a marketing communications specialist at Sunrise Technologies. She is an award-winning community advocate for local businesses and the arts, and has worked with artists, city officials, community groups and local businesses to promote the City of Winston-Salem as the “City of Arts and Innovation.” Morris is the co-creator of the “Scene in Winston-Salem Scavenger Hunt” and “Treks in the City: Winston-Salem,” which raised some $20,000 for the Downtown Winston-Salem Foundation. She  won a Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership  Excellence Award in 2011 for the Scavenger Hunt and another in 2012 for Treks in the City: Winston-Salem. She has served on the board of the West End Neighborhood Association for the last five years. She is a native of Winston-Salem and graduate of the University of West Florida in Pensacola, FL.