{{Short description|Former American magazine editor}} {{Infobox person | name = Susan Schulz | image = | birth_name = Susan Eileen Schulz | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|10|5}} | birth_place = Westchester County, New York | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Communications consultant, former magazine editor | other_names = | disappeared_status = | title = | education = Loyola University Maryland | family = | relatives = | credits = Editorial assistant, ''Redbook''; Assistant editor, ''Good Housekeeping''; Associate/senior editor, ''YM''; Editor-in-chief, ''CosmoGirl'' | website = }}

'''Susan Schulz,''' who also goes by '''Susan Schulz Wuornos''' (born October 5, 1971), is an American editor and communications consultant best known for being the editor-in-chief of ''CosmoGirl'' magazine, the teenage spin-off of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine, from 2003 to 2008.

== Early life == Schulz was born in 1971 to Iva and Richard Schulz of White Plains, New York.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2004-07-04 |title=Weddings/Celebrations: Susan Schulz, Kevin Wuornos |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/style/weddings-celebrations-susan-schulz-kevin-wuornos.html |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1993, she earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola University Maryland, then called Loyola College, in Baltimore.<ref name=":1" />

== Magazine career == Schulz began her magazine career as an editorial assistant at ''Redbook'' magazine in 1994.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gavilanes |first=Grace |date=2013-04-22 |title=How She Got There: Susan Schulz, Editorial Brand Director of Cosmopolitan |url=https://www.hercampus.com/career/how-she-got-there-susan-schulz-editorial-brand-director-cosmopolitan/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Her Campus |language=en-US}}</ref>

In July 2003, Schulz became editor-in-chief of ''CosmoGirl'' after the founding editor, Atoosa Rubenstein, left ''CosmoGirl'' to lead ''Seventeen'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carr |first=David |date=2003-07-23 |title=Hearst Names New Editor in Chief for Seventeen Magazine |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/23/business/media/hearst-names-new-editor-in-chief-for-seventeen-magazine.html |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Before the promotion, Schulz had been the executive editor of ''CosmoGirl.'' In December 2008, Hearst ended the print publication of ''CosmoGirl,'' and Schulz was then moved to a position at the company working on special projects.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clifford |first=Stephanie |date=2008-10-10 |title=Hearst to Close CosmoGirl Magazine |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/media/11cosmo.html |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Schulz at one time had the title editorial brand director of ''Cosmopolitan'' and managed such projects as Cosmo Books and a ''Cosmopolitan'' clothing line at JCPenney.<ref name=":0" />

== Writing credits == For the nonfiction book ''Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends'' (Seal Press, 2007), Schulz contributed a short essay on her cat dying one week before her wedding.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-03-05 |title=Review: Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781580052030 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>

== Other work == From 2021 to 2022, Schulz worked as vice president/marketing director for the nonprofit organization Muscular Dystrophy Association.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2021-05-17 |title=MDA Names Susan Schulz as Vice President/Marketing Director |url=https://www.mda.org/press-releases/mda-names-susan-schulz-as-vice-president-marketing-director |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Muscular Dystrophy Association |language=en}}</ref> Before that, for five years, she was marketing director for the nonprofit organization New York Academy of Sciences.<ref name=":2" />

Schulz has served on the board of directors, in the role of secretary, for GlamourGals, a nonprofit organization that pairs teenage volunteers with seniors to provide companionship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Team {{!}} GlamourGals |url=https://www.glamourgals.org/program/people |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=GlamourGals Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>

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