Susan is currently a Swahili Teaching Fellow at St. Lawrence University. She is working on her second MA in School Counseling at SLU, while teaching Swahili for the Department of Modern Languages. She received her Bachelor’s degree in her native Kenya at the University of Nairobi , majoring in Political Science Literature. And, later received her Masters with an African Studies concentration from Ohio State University .

Susan spent time in 2003, working for TV Thirteen/PBS Television where she did Swahili translation, research and voice-overs for the much- acclaimed documentary Wide Angle; Time for School. It featured the predicament facing poor children all over the world and the implementation of education policies, and highlighted the free education system in Kenya . She also worked for Kameme 101.1 FM Community Radio Station in Kenya as a Radio Producer and Researcher in 2000-2001.

Susan’s publications include a play, Maringo ya Mwili, performed in various primary and high schools in 1998, as well as writing entertainment articles for the entertainment Windmill magazine published under Unga Limited Nairobi in 1994.

Among her many talents Susan is also an actress. She played roles in the popular Swahili soap opera Wingu la Moto screened on Nation TV and the film Karanja: The Suffering Alcoholic produced by Ukweli Video Productions in 1999. She was also a narrator at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) in the program Radio Theatre in a play entitled Zela (1998), and performed in various other plays.

From 2003-2005, Susan was a Senior Case Worker in charge of Pre-adoption and rehabilitation programs for children and women that are victims of sexual and drug abuse, early parenthood, domestic violence and HIV/Aids. She counseled families and provided moral, material, educational and referral support to the families.

Susan taught Swahili Language and Culture and African Literature at the Undergraduate level at Ohio State University , as well as undergraduate and graduate Intermediate Swahili Level I & II, East African Culture, Gender and Society and African Literature at New York University . Before coming to SLU in mid-August of 2006 , she directed student affairs and democracy and taught creative writing, African literature and African studies at the Wangari Maathai Empowerment Center in Kenya .