EXPERIENCE
About Dr. Borrego
From her early experiences as an emancipated minor to her latest tenure as the University of Michigan-Flint Chancellor, Dr. Susan E. Borrego brings a passion for helping people and organizations overcome obstacles, embrace innovation, and become difference-makers.
Speaking Services
Dr. Borrego shares her experience and insight as a transformative leader and advocate for the underrepresented at speaking engagements, conferences, and events. Her energy and enthusiasm have inspired audiences around the country.
Consulting Services
Since 1990, Dr. Borrego has been collaborating with institutions of higher learning and organizations in the private and public sector to resolve their most pressing challenges with breakthrough solutions and entrepreneurial resourcefulness.
In Their Words
Dr. Borrego brings a unique passion and perspective to her speaking engagements. See what audiences have to say about her relatable approach, inspiring optimism, and passion for helping people realize their own power to make a difference.
Let’s talk about you.
Every conversation starts with hello. Dr. Borrego welcomes the chance to learn about your challenges and goals, and discuss how to align your success with those you serve.
Bio
From emancipated minor to empowering students.
Over the course of her 30-year career as an innovative leader in higher education, Dr. Susan E. Borrego has remained above all else a passionate advocate for students and the individual’s ability to enact positive change. She has seen first-hand the power of education to transform lives, starting with her own.
Born in Detroit, Sue grew up downriver from the city in a working-class family of auto and steel workers, bar tenders, and grocery store clerks. Sue became an emancipated minor at age 16. No stranger to hard work, she took on her first job as a shoeshiner in elementary school and worked her way through high school shoveling snow and delivering papers — often in the freezing cold Michigan dawn. No one in Sue’s family had attended college, and she assumed that high school would be the end of her educational journey as well.
