Susan Olsen

Susan Olsen is an educator with extensive and diverse 7-12 classroom experience. She graduated with honors with a bachelor’s degree in English from Kenyon College in 1991 and took her first teaching job at a small Quaker school outside Philadelphia. She earned master’s degrees at Harvard University in theology and in education administration, planning, and social policy. At the Divinity School, she also completed the Program in Religion and Secondary Education. After graduate school, Susan taught English at Baltimore City College High School. In 1999, she joined the faculty at Brentwood School, served as English department chair in her last three years, and founded a free, after-school English as a Second Language program for adult kitchen and custodial staff.