Susan Klopfer BA, MBA

Advanced Expert Search Most Connected Experts

Add to Your Expert Network Send Message Get Updates from Expert

- 10 Articles - 3 Websites - 0 Events - 866 User points

Susan Klopfer Writes, Speaks and Blogs on Retirement, Civil Rights and Diversity Expert

Susan Klopfer Quick Facts

Main Areas: Retirement, Civil Rights, Diversity
Career Focus: Author, Blogger, Speaker

Thank you for stopping by. As a retiree, I write, blog and speak on retirement, civil rights and diversity. Formerly, an acquisitions and development editor for Prentice Hall, a journalist and technical writer, my computer book, Abort!, Retry!, Fail! was named an alternate selection by the Book of-the-Month Club. My upcoming ebook Ready To Retire? Way To Go! [A Unique Guide For Peaceful and Happy Retirement] is set for fall publication. The civil rights books I've written focus on people like Emmett Till, Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, Amzie Moore and other civil rights foot soldiers, emphasizing unsolved Mississippi Delta murders from mid 1950s on. This September, my husband and I are looking forward to becoming expats, living in Cuenca, Ecuador. We'll be taking Popsicle (our cat) and Ralph (our dog) along on this journey. You are invited to come along, too! Hasta entonces (until then), Susan. P.S. I love to help retired people find new things to do and see, so please come along as we explore retirement and "expatting."

Other Programs & Highlights

My Retirement Monologues Blog -- CLICK

Where I hang out on the Internet -- CLICK

My Emmett Till Blog -- CLICK

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Susan Klopfer

"I think that every time a man stands for an ideal or speaks out against injustice, he sends out a tiny ripple of hope." Aaron Henry, Mississippi civil rights leader

Getting Started With Susan Klopfer

THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA is not a place I would have picked to live and if you had asked me a few years ago what I knew about the region, it would have been a puzzle since I knew nothing of its history or culture — I’d never even heard of the Delta Blues. My husband, Fred, was hired by a private group to be the mental health director for inmates in Mississippi’s state-run prisons, and so our lives took on a new dimension as we made a small, red-brick house on the grounds of Parchman Penitentiary our new Sunflower County home, in the heart of the Delta. Eventually, I would enjoying smelling the richness of the alluvial soil and appreciate where we had been dropped. But not the afternoon of my arrival.