Suzette Martinez Standring, 2021-23 Treasurer
Columnist & Director Emeritus
Suzette Martinez Standring became NSNC Executive Director in January 2017. She’s come full circle as she formerly directed a legal organization for 1,500 attorneys from 1984-1995 in her hometown of San Francisco.
Since 2007, she writes a spirituality column for The Patriot Ledger (MA), which is syndicated nationally through GateHouse Media. Her award-winning books, The Art of Opinion Writing (2014) and The Art of Column Writing (2008) are used in journalism courses such as Johns Hopkins University. Suzette is a past president of The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (2004-2006) and is the host of It’s All Write With Suzette, a cable TV show about writing, with episodes on youtube.com Suzette presents writing workshops nationally.
In years past before becoming the Executive Director, Suzette was involved in programming for the NSNC conferences held in San Francisco, Tucson, Boston, and Hartford.
The NSNC’s influence was huge in moving her career forward, and the great friends she has made are her forever tribe.
She lives in Milton, MA with her husband David where she braves New England winters with thoughts of Cape Cod summers.
Visit her website: www.readsuzette.com
Or email her: suzmar@comcast.net
