Susan Brooks

Dr. Susan Leigh Brooks is a lifelong literacy educator with a passion for learning and teaching. After more than three decades of teaching reading and writing to learners from preschool age to graduate students, she currently serves as the Director of Faith+Lead Academy. 

Brooks creates online courses to encourage and equip people in their faith. She is a graduate of Bethel University (B.A.), Minnesota State University (M.A.), and University of Minnesota (Ph.D.). 

Along with reading, of course, Brooks loves to garden and hike. She also loves to travel, having been to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area over 50 times. She and her husband have two adult children, two amazing children-in-law, and two grandsons, all of whom receive books for Christmas.