Susan graduated from Kutztown University in 1986 with a BS in Business Administration/Marketing. She returned to Kutztown and earned her certification as a Secondary Education/Social Studies teacher in 1996. She then taught at KidsPeace in Orefield for 11 years. She left her teaching position to spend more time with her then preschool age daughter, Mikailyn, and worked part-time as the Director of Children’s Education at Wesley Church. Now she works full-time at Wesley Church as the Church Administrator and the Wesley’s Circle of Friends Preschool Administrator. She and her husband Michael joined Wesley Church in 1997 and were married here in 1998. Their daughter, Mikailyn, is now a Freshman at the University of Pittsburgh.