Susan is co-founder and Immediate Past President of Arts in Action, an art advocacy non-profit partnering with businesses, government, and other non-profits for the enhancement of our community. She also serves on the board of directors for the Maury County Historical Society, Rippavilla Mansion, and aMuse'um Children's Museum. She is also a member of The Chestnut Group of plein air painters who are dedicated to preserving green spaces, historic battlefields and historic homes around middle Tennessee.

Susan resides in a century-old Craftsman cottage in historic, downtown Columbia, Tennessee, where she can be found capturing free moments sipping sweet tea on the front porch with numerous well-loved and misbehaved, rescued fur babies at her feet, gardening, or updating her blog on living a magnolia-scented life.

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