Sue Adams, PhD

As a Continuing Education Specialist in the SPIRIT Center, Sue is a Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador trainer. She also serves as a pREACH Ambassador and a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family Support Group Facilitator, where she shares lived experience with peers.

Before joining the SPIRIT Center, Sue was an adjunct professor in the graduate school of the University of Maryland Global Campus and an instructor at the University of Virginia. With a Ph.D. in Human Development, Sue’s favorite teaching topics are Interpersonal Communication and Interviewing Skills. These interests led to teaching opportunities in Vienna, Prague, Edinburgh, Ottawa, Toronto, and multiple US states.

Sue and her husband spent their honeymoon backpacking on Denali. Since then, their passion for trekking has taken them from the Himalayas and the Andes to the Alps and Mt. Kilimanjaro. Closer to home, they hike in the High Sierras and the White Mountains. One of their favorite adventures is an urban challenge: The Great Saunter, a 32-mile walk around the perimeter of Manhattan Island in a single day.