Susan Erburu Reardon

Susan Erburu Reardon has served on the Board of the Los Angeles Master Chorale Association since March 1992 and as vice chair, strategic initiatives, since 2011. In September 2013, she joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association as its director of gift planning.

Ms. Reardon has over 30 years of experience as an attorney, including with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practiced law for 17 years and was a firm litigation partner for seven years. She then served as a nonprofit executive for over 15 years with KCET, the independent community public television resource for Southern and Central California (now KCETLink). Reardon joined KCET in 1997 as senior vice president and general counsel. In 2004, she was promoted to executive vice president and general counsel, assuming responsibility for obtaining grants from charitable foundations for programming, production and general operations. From December 2010 through October 2012, she served as chief development officer at KCET, part of the three-person Office of the President. As such, she was responsible for management of KCET’s fundraising efforts, including major gifts, planned giving, foundations and government grants, membership, corporate underwriting, and special events. After her departure from KCET, Reardon created InCITE Nonprofit Advising, LLC to provide strategic advice to nonprofit organizations.

Reardon graduated with her A.B. in History magna cum laude from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1977, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Iota of Massachusetts Chapter (now Alpha Iota of Massachusetts), in her junior year, and received her J.D. in 1980 from Harvard Law School. Her numerous community activities include serving as vice chair of the board of governors of Idyllwild Arts Foundation, which supports the Idyllwild Summer Program and the Idyllwild Arts Academy, providing pre-professional training in the arts and a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum for young artists; as a member of the board of directors of the Radcliffe Choral Society Foundation; and as a director of the Pfaffinger Foundation. Reardon and her husband George currently pursue their lifelong avocation as choral singers with the Los Robles Master Chorale, conducted by artistic director Lesley Leighton. For 27 years, they were members of the St. Charles Borromeo Choir, conducted by Paul Salamunovich.