About Susan Skog

     
 
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Susan Skog is a six-time author, writer and presenter and focuses on humanitarian people and projects. Trained as a journalist, her books include The Give-Back Solution: Create a Better World with Your Time, Talents and Travel; Peace in our Lifetime: Insights from the World’s Peacemakers; Radical Acts of Love: How Compassion is Transforming Our World; Embracing Our Essence: Spiritual Conversations with Prominent Women; Depression: What Your Body’s Trying to Tell You; and ABCs for Living.

Susan's work has appeared in The NY Times, AARP, Science,  Prevention, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Reader's Digest, newspapers across the country, and many other publications.

She has presented at dozens of  corporate, women’s, medical, government, educational, and religious organizations, from the USDA to Hewlett-Packard and venues around the country.

Susan's worked with and volunteered for BeadforLife, a Ugandan and
Colorado-based nonprofit lifting refugee, HIV-positive women out of
extreme poverty by selling their handmade, beaded jewelry. She is a
former manager at Engineers Without Borders-USA, whose volunteers
improve conditions in 47 countries.

Susan was an award-winning science writer for Colorado State
University. She is a journalism graduate from the University of Iowa.

Her favorite give-back projects support kids here and in the developing world. Susan co-created the Solstice Solidarity Sleepout, which raised money for humanitarian needs in Afghanistan through Doctors Without Borders and an Afghan relief organization building schools and hospitals.