Susan Gaer is a retired professor of ESL at Santa Ana College School of Continuing Education and a former president of(California Association of Teachers to Speakers of Other Lanugages(CATESOL). She currently works as an adjunct faculty for the American University of Afghanistan, a Subject Matter Expert at the Outreach Technical Assistance Center in Sacramento  and an advisor and collaborator for World Education. Susan is an avid technology user and was the technical editor for the book Pismo Monarch Butterflies: Magic Myths and Mysteries. She is a docent for the Pismo State Beach Butterfly Grove and the Chumash Education Program.