Susan Darst Williams is a writer, education activist, creativity coach, and fun-loving mother of four daughters married to her high-school sweetheart, Dave Williams. They live on a horse acreage outside Omaha, Nebraska. 

  

Besides www.RadiantBeams.org, Susan's passion is her nonprofit corporation and website, www.AfterSchoolTreats.com. It offers free enrichment opportunities for school-age children, and mini-grants to provide after-school field trips and creativity workshops for inner-city children in the Omaha metropolitan area. 

  

Susan also publishes an educational advice column and database, www.ShowandTellforParents.com, and a website on Nebraska education issues, www.GoBigEd.com  

  

A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she was a reporter for The Omaha World-Herald and the Midlands Business Journal, has taught newswriting and reporting on the university level, and is a prize-winning free-lance writer of everything from books to articles to scripts to greeting cards. 

  

Susan also is contributing editor of RFD-TV The Magazine. It's the bimonthly publication of RFD-TV, "Rural America's Most Important TV Network," www.rfdtv.com. She writes several articles for each issue, and a column, "Back Porch." 

  

  

  

  

Four lovely daughters provide Susan and Dave with lots of "radiant beams."