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Susan Casey
“When I was a girl, I loved reading and writing and my first magazine article was published when I was in the seventh grade. I graduated with a degree in history from Santa Clara University. After that I worked as a teacher in many schools, studied photography and filmmaking and eventually wrote educational films and produced industrial films. I have spent most of my life in California, not only in Los Angeles but also in Humboldt County and Berkeley. I have also traveled to Spain and Morocco, and to Malaysia and England. I spent a summer after college in a small Mexican village as part of a work project and then traveled around Mexico by bus. I worked as an au pair for an English family in Ghana, West Africa. Africa was so interesting that it prompted me to become a writer so I could tell my friends and family back home what it was like. Once I started writing magazine articles, I was hooked.”
“When I was invited to speak at schools about Women Invent! , kids were interested in my slides and stories of women inventors; but when I showed them slides of girl inventors they really got interested. So I began to interview kid inventors about their ideas. I realized that if I was to write a book about kid inventors, other kids would also want to know how to become inventors. That’s why Kids Inventing! is a handbook with stories that illustrate that kids really are inventors.”
Casey is a journalist, speaker, teacher and author. As a journalist, she enjoys writing about topics ranging from outdoor activities to art, travel, construction and more. Her articles have appeared in Family Circle, Americana, USAir, Women’s sports, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inventors Digest, Electrical Contractor and many other publications. She has spoken to lots of different groups including the Houston Forum, the Montana Educator’s Conference, and the UCLA Women’s Leadership Conference. She’s also spoken at lots of schools and libraries. She shows the kids photos and videos of kid inventors and lets them see and handle inventions of kids.
Susan Casey is the author of two books:
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