Suzanne Pharr is an American organizer, political strategist, and author who has worked to build a broad-based social justice movement in the United States.
Pharr is the founder of the Women's Project (based in Arkansas), co-founded Southerners on New Ground, a regional progressive LGBT organization, and was the director of the Highlander Center.
From 1977 to 1978, she was director of the Washington County Head Start Program in Fayetteville, AR.
From 1999 to 2004, she served as director for the Highlander Research and Education Center, a historic, civil rights organization based in New Market, TN.
[4] Pharr is the author of the book Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (published in 1988 by Chardon Press).