Her plan for now is to resume running her technology consulting company
Longtime Goleta school board member Susan Epstein, pauses to takes a selfie with the large crowd at the March for Science event in De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara in April 2017. She was emcee for the event. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk file photo)
By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
December 19, 2020
| 9:35 p.m.
Long before Susan Epstein was a Goleta Union School District board member, she was writing stories as a student journalist during her sophomore year of high school.
She wrote an award-winning investigative piece, an "expose," as she recalls it, on a sudden proposal to eliminate electives at her school. It was in accordance with state law, Epstein's principal told her at the time. Showing early signs of her analytical style, Epstein deep-dived into the story, discovered it was a choice, not a mandate, to eliminate electives. She broke the story.