[1][2] Susan received her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1991 and her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 1986.
During her time there, she conducted a research project in the outdoor play yards at the Child Development Laboratory.
[7] In 2003, she began a five-year study called Outside Criteria, which studies the outdoor play spaces of childcare centers in Vancouver as part of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI)-funded Consortium for Health, Intervention, Learning and Development (CHILD) project.
[8] Susan was also asked to return to the International Garden Festival, "Les Jardins de Metis in Quebec" and brought Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) and Environmental Design (ENDS) students with her in June 2004 to build her garden, "Hip Hop”.
[9][Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations] She was the President of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Landscape History Chapter from 2011-2013.