Susan Schaefer

Susan Schaefer is a widely published independent journalist, creative writer, poet, communications consultant, and coach, and a former university professor, and newspaper editor and publisher.

Certified as a facilitator from the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and a Presence Based coach, accredited in public relations, with a doctoral equivalent in European Public Affairs and a master's degree in English, Susan brings dynamic perspective to client work providing counsel to government, business, NGO and not-for-profit leaders from such fields as higher education, environment, architecture, engineering, and law.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, she co-published and edited its downtown biweekly, the South Street Star. Her articles have appeared in Next Avenue, Next Tribe, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Mill City Times, the Seward Profile, and the Netherlands’ Crossroads Magazine. She was columnist and features writer for Minneapolis’ Southwest Journal and Minnesota Good Age  magazine.

Susan’s journey has included living in Delhi, India; Bogotá, Colombia; Pompano Beach, Fla.; Maastricht, the Netherlands; She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minn., atop Bohemian Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, her daily source of inspiration.