Susan is a Communications Specialist with extensive experience as a creative writer and editor. She has a diverse background in state government and service in nonprofit organizations.  Susan worked with the Governor's Press Office, and served as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Before joining Innovative Resources Group in 1994, she was Assistant Director of the Bureau of Women, Children and Family Services of the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.

Susan began her career as Director of Public Relations and Development for the Association for Retarded Citizens in Syracuse, where she was on the leadership team in a successful capital campaign. She is active as a community volunteer as a 21-year member of Albany Rotary Club, where she has been involved in numerous local charitable projects, including cooking on a regular basis for Ronald McDonald House in Albany and working at Habitat for Humanity. For over a decade, she was on the New York State Child Abuse Council, and in Central New York she served on the Task Force for Gifted Students and on the board of Alliance, a child abuse agency in Central New York. 

A member of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and the Delmar Writers Group, Susan has recently had serveral pieces published, and has read her work at events sponsored by the Writers Guild, libraries, and Capital Region arboretums. She attended Syracuse University, and is currently in the Masters Memoir Class of author Marion Roach Smith.

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