Suzanne Morgan

Suzanne, Founder of Sharing Sacred Spaces, is a retired architect and a consultant on liturgical design, who worked at many prominent firms in the Chicago area including Skidmore Owings and Merrill and Loebl, Schlossman, and Hackll, in addition to operating as a sole practitioner.

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In 1999, Suzanne opened the Upper Room, an interfaith prayer space in Chicago’s financial district. Stunned by the events of 9/11, she decided to address the need for religious literacy by opening Sacred Space International to educate the public about the world’s religions through the nonverbal and universal medium of architecture. For the next 10 years, Suzanne devoted herself to teaching about religious architecture to build understanding and peace across religious difference.

Then in 2010, in a collaborative effort with the Rev. Dirk Ficca and the Parliament of the World's Religions, Suzanne launched the first Sharing Sacred Spaces pilot program in Chicago -- the core of which later became a beacon of interfaith engagement in cities across North America.

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Suzanne holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an MBA from the University of Chicago. In 2015, Suzanne was the Fetullah Gulen award recipient by the Chicago-based Niagara Foundation for the use of religious architecture for the pursuit of world peace.