Susan Lahey

Austin, TX USA

Professional Experience

After 20 plus years of covering business from finance to entrepreneurship, I've spent much of the last several years covering tech and startups in Austin for a digital startup news site, Silicon Hills News. I've also co-written or ghostwritten several books and become an expert at content marketing for industries ranging from big data collection and integration to acupuncture. I love the variety. In fact, it would be tough to find an industry I haven't written about or written for, including tech, business, sustainability, travel and art.

Expertise

Copywriter
5 Years
Book Author
3 Years
Reporter
30 Years

Specialty

Entrepreneurship
20 Years
Business (general)
30 Years
Technology
3 Years

Industries


Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
20 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
15 Years
Online/new media
3 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

30 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Silicon Hills News (10+), Austin American Statesman (6-10), Next Avenue (3-5)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Alliance Abroad Group (10+), Kohana Coffee (10+), PathwaysTV (10+), RW3 (10+), ValentineHR (10+)

Other Work History

Senior reporter for Austin Digital News Site covering tech and startups three years. Written for Mother Earth News, Natural Home, Grit, Bank Director, Business Nashville, Kansas City Magazine, Taos News, New Mexico Magazine.

Foreign Language Skills

speak passable French and learning Italian

Equipment

Laptop/Digital camera

Associations

Austin Women Communicators board member two years Freelance Austin Board member three years

Showcase

blog

Blog
(www.susanlahey.blogspot.com 5/23/2025)
Blog on life, change, personal growth, travel, risk, midlife, parenting, all things transformational

General

CRA More Than a Numbers Game
(Bank Director Magazine 5/23/2025)
The Community Reinvestment Act was created to actually protect communities...but implementation has sometimes focused on protecting the banks.
Hallmark's Creative Paradox
(Corporate Report Kansas City 5/23/2025)
Gordon McKenzie's unorthodox job was to keep Hallmark's artists creative.
Simple Living in the Southwest
(Mother Earth 5/23/2025)
First person account of moving off the grid with my three children into a one-room strawbale house.
Ecotourism
(Taos News 5/23/2025)
A new approach to tourism is seeking to both educate and entertain visitors to Taos.
The New Face of the Crossroads
(Kansas City Magazine 5/23/2025)
Artists took over an abandoned section of downtown Kansas City and made it the hippest part of town. Now that developers have discovered their playground, can the artists afford to stay there?