Susan Shullaw is a retired nonprofit executive who spent most of her career in higher education, providing strategic communications and marketing support for major fundraising campaigns. She grew up in Burlington, Iowa, a Mississippi River town known as the birthplace of Aldo Leopold, and she enjoyed summer vacations in northern Minnesota. These experiences instilled a passion for the outdoors and a deep love of nature and its wild places. Since 2011 she has served on the board of the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, enabling her to play an active role in protecting and restoring the natural resources of Iowa, the most biologically altered landscape in the U.S.

For the Spring 2024 issue, Susan recommended Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment, Robert K. Musil, Rutgers University Press, 2015, 328 pages.

For the Autumn 2023 issue, Susan recommended Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay, Merilyn Simonds, ECW Press, 2022, 416 pages.