Shannon Sutton

Shannon is a Senior Grants & Contracts Associate at Western Illinois University and NCURA Past President. She holds an MBA in Accounting, is a Certified Public Accountant and has over twenty seven years of research administration experience. Shannon recently served as Assistant Director University Research Centers at Georgia State University and previously spent more than two decades at Western Illinois University, serving in multiple leadership roles including Director of Sponsored Projects and Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration. She is an active member of NCURA having served on several committees, traveling workshop faculty, regional leadership, and past NCURA board member, Treasurer, Vice President and President. Currently she is a peer reviewer and presents at regional and national conferences.