Susan Danoff combines her many years of experience in storytelling, teaching, writing, and nonprofit management in her new venture, Susan Danoff Consulting. The business has two components: to help philanthropies and nonprofits tell their stories and to support group building in the workplace, using storytelling as a facilitation technique.
As a professional storyteller, Susan has told stories in hundreds of schools, colleges, libraries, museums, and conferences. She has also has taught the art of storytelling to adults who wish to communicate more effectively and has presented workshops at schools, universities, and museums including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Friends Council on Education, the School of Education at West Chester University in PA, and at numerous teacher in-services. For 21 years she taught an intensive summer seminar in the art of storytelling at Princeton University.
Susan founded the nonprofit corporation Storytelling Arts, Inc., where she served as Executive Director for twelve years. Under her leadership, Storytelling Arts forged partnerships with fifty schools and institutions, served approximately 18,000 children in long-term programs to support learning and literacy, and provided extensive teacher training in storytelling.
Most recently Susan has used her teaching and storytelling skills to facilitate workshops for employees at Princeton, Rutgers and Syracuse Universities. In these sessions she has addressed community building, diversity, transition, and creativity. She is currently working with staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on effective storytelling practice.
Susan is author of the book The Golden Thread: Storytelling in Teaching and Learning and has produced three audio recordings. Women of Vision, now available on CD, won the Parents' Choice Gold Award.
Susan earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, an M.A. in English from Rutgers University, and an English Teaching Credential from the University of California, Berkeley. For nine years she taught “The Craft of Writing” at Princeton University.