Susan Schulz | |
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Born | Susan Eileen Schulz October 5, 1971 Westchester County, New York |
Education | Loyola University Maryland |
Occupation(s) | Communications consultant, former magazine editor |
Notable credit(s) | Editorial assistant, Redbook; Assistant editor, Good Housekeeping; Associate/senior editor, YM; Editor-in-chief, CosmoGirl |
Susan Schulz, who also goes by Susan Schulz Wuornos (born October 5, 1971), is an American editor and communications consultant best known for being the editor-in-chief of CosmoGirl magazine, the teenage spin-off of Cosmopolitan magazine, from 2003 to 2008.
Schulz was born in 1971 to Iva and Richard Schulz of White Plains, New York. [1] In 1993, she earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola University Maryland, then called Loyola College, in Baltimore. [1]
Schulz began her magazine career as an editorial assistant at Redbook magazine in 1994. [2]
In July 2003, Schulz became editor-in-chief of CosmoGirl after the founding editor, Atoosa Rubenstein, left CosmoGirl to lead Seventeen magazine. [3] Before the promotion, Schulz had been the executive editor of CosmoGirl. In December 2008, Hearst ended the print publication of CosmoGirl, and Schulz was then moved to a position at the company working on special projects. [4] Schulz at one time had the title editorial brand director of Cosmopolitan and managed such projects as Cosmo Books and a Cosmopolitan clothing line at JCPenney. [2]
For the nonfiction book Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends (Seal Press, 2007), Schulz contributed a short essay on her cat dying one week before her wedding. [5]
From 2021 to 2022, Schulz worked as vice president/marketing director for the nonprofit organization Muscular Dystrophy Association. [6] Before that, for five years, she was marketing director for the nonprofit organization New York Academy of Sciences. [6]
Schulz has served on the board of directors, in the role of secretary, for GlamourGals, a nonprofit organization that pairs teenage volunteers with seniors to provide companionship. [7]