Biography
Susan Salter Reynolds was a columnist and staff writer for the Los Angeles Times for twenty-five years, writing about books, the arts, travel, food, and innovation. Her interviewing, profiling, marketing, and writing skills have been a fixture at Harp and Company, a design company in Hanover, since 2007, and she teaches writing at Dartmouth College.
Susan is co-author of Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation (Berrett-Koehler). Some of her current and recent clients include Dartmouth College, Harvard Business School, The Putney School, New England Culinary Institute, St. Mark’s School, the UCLA Medicinal Herb Garden, the Himalayan Cataract Project, and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. She is the editor and primary features writer for the Saint Michael’s College alumni magazine.
Susan earned a BA in English from Middlebury College and did graduate studies in economics and political science at the University of California, Davis. She spent six years in New York City as the publications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, where she was publications director and editor of Ethics and International Affairs. After Carnegie, she was an assistant editor at The New York Review of Books.