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.