Before writing Love Will Save Us, Right? for three decades, Suzette worked in San Diego as a community developer and non-profit organizer. She served as an AIDS chaplain, street outreach worker, substance abuse counselor, reproductive health educator, volunteer coordinator, mental health activist, fundraiser and public speaker. For more than thirteen years she worked for First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego before managing an HHSA community liaison for children’s public behavioral health. Before retiring to provide better support for her autistic and proud son, she served as the director of education for a local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. More Info below.