About Me

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Susanna has earned advanced degrees from UC Berkeley (BA), Harvard University (EdM) and UCLA (MEd).

Additionally, Susanna has served as a licensed English Language Arts teacher and private tutor, instructing children and adults in Boston and Los Angeles in writing -- and in its cousin, reading -- for over 15 years. Her students have included public and private school students, children living in homeless shelters, children of Hollywood's A-Listers, incarcerated youth, immigrant restaurant workers, kids at overnight summer camps, CEOs, and fellow solopreneurs. Her students and clients have come from around the world, including: the United States, Cape Verde, China, Vietnam, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Korea, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Morocco and Guinea.

In all of her work, Susanna seeks to hold love for her craft and for her students, at her center, while inviting them into discovering their own love-relationship with the process of writing and reading myriad genres.

Susanna was 14 years old when she entered and won her first writing contest -- with the American Legion Post 18. Her essay was entitled, "A Day in the Life of the American Flag." 

She wrote her undergraduate thesis under the aegis of UC, Berkeley's world-renowned Professor of History and Classics, Erich Gruen. “The Queen of Sheba & King Solomon: Politics, Romance and Hegemony in the Ancient World” is an intra- and inter-literary analysis of texts from the Middle East and North Africa, spanning ancient times to the middle ages.

While a student at UC, Berkeley, Susanna also had the privilege of learning the art of poetry -- as well as how to teach it -- from internationally-acclaimed activist, essayist, teacher and poet -- the prolific Professor June Jordan.

At age 21, she self-published a book of 50 haiku poems, inspired by the late, great Richard Wright's final book, "Haiku." 

In order to support herself while a student, Susanna wrote numerous scholarship essays, receiving financial support from: the Hoyt Family, Judith Levine, and the Harvard Club of Boston.

Susanna is currently working on pivoting her Master's thesis into a published book. "Meeting Absurdity with Love" is part research, part reflection on her years as a classroom English teacher, and part call-to-action in support of classroom teachers and school-age children in a post-quarantine, rapidly tech-evolving world. 

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