Ms. Trevino and her husband Buddy have been Co-Directors of The Joffrey Workshop since 1978. As co-director of the University of the Incarnate Word Dance Department since 1977, Susan Trevino has been an outstanding influence in the development of dance and dancers, and has dedicated thousands of hours of volunteer time to bring quality dance to San Antonio and South Texas.

Trained in her native Oklahoma, Susan achieved solo and principal status in a number of quality regional and professional companies including Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, Austin Ballet Theatre, Festival Ballet of San Antonio, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Ballet Arts Company of Denver, Rocky Mountain National Ballet, and Ruth Page International Ballet Company. As a professional choreographer, she lists more than 100 original works, various theatre productions, and has collaborated with many other ballet companies to choreograph, costume, and produce performances. Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo premiered her production of Gaite Parisienne in 1996 at New York City's Hunter College. Since then, the ballet has toured the U.S., Canada, and Japan. She was commissioned in 2001 by The Nutmeg Ballet and Corpus Christi Concert Ballet to create and premier two new works. Most recently she created a trilogy of works based on the Holocaust for Duncan Lawton City Ballet.

Ms. Trevino was named Outstanding Young Woman in America in 1982. In 1985 and 1989 she received the Mayor's Proclamation as "Emissary of the Muses." In 1986 the San Antonio Express-News awarded her Outstanding Young Woman in the Arts. She is also a 1990 inductee in the San Antonio Women's Celebration and Hall of Fame. Professional involvement includes membership in the National Society of Arts and Letters and the National Association of Schools of Dance. Happily married to Abelardo "Buddy" Trevino for 30 years, they have one daughter, Teresa.