Board Members

Suzanne Bona-Hatem

Suzanne Bona-Hatem is a native of Fairfield, CT. She earned a Bachelor of Music in the School of Fine Arts at The University of Connecticut in Storrs, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She has performed throughout New England, New York and Ohio with a variety of orchestras and chamber groups and as a soloist.

Affiliated with the Literacy Council since 2003, Suzanne tutors an English-as-a-Second-Language student. She has also helped with the agency's annual Spelling Bee, is on the fundraising committee, and since 2007 has organized an annual concert, MUSIC AMONG FRIENDS, to benefit the Literacy Council.

She is currently host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated music program she first developed in 1987 at WSHU in Fairfield, CT. The program is heard on more than 150 radio stations, including Classical 90.9 WGUC Cincinnati.

Suzanne is married to Ron Bona-Hatem. In addition to her still active flute playing, she enjoys reading, running, biking, cooking, and volunteering for a variety of other causes including arts organizations and social service agencies.

Revised 07-Mat-2011