Sue is a veteran educator of gifted students in the U.S. She retired early to pursue a calling to work in alternative education in an international setting. Sue pulls from her rich experiential background in the creative arts to teach art, music, drama, photography and cultural anthropology in the schools. In addition, she conducts nutrition and cooking classes in conjunction with the foundation’s organic agricultural project, Tierra Viva. She also set up the region's first community library, leads a micro-enterprise model for sustainable income at an alternative textile trade school and she designs and creates educational toys and “hands-on” didactic materials used in pre-school and elementary classrooms, among many other roles.