Susan Burk has an extensive background in broadcast journalism, theatrical arts, and advocacy. She attended graduate school at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago and has worked on stage, television, and films in several states. She began her Wyoming career with KTRS Radio in 1991, and as a radio and television News Director and anchor won numerous awards from the Associated Press and the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters for her reporting and anchoring. She spent five years working with hundreds of theatre companies around the world with the Laramie Project plays for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, including Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C., the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Nuffield Youth Theatre in London.

She is currently the Community Liaison for Central Wyoming Hospice and Transitions, providing education, outreach, marketing, and media relations for the organization.