Susan Kuhn has been teaching business writing and journalism classes for seven years, at Queens College and St. John’s University. She began her career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, in corporate finance and capital markets. In 1988 she took a short walk across the street to join Fortune magazine as a reporter. She was promoted to associate editor in 1992, and spent the next six years covering the stock and bond markets, writing columns and cover stories, and appearing as an expert commentator on CNN, CNBC, and other broadcasts. In 1998 she received a Masters in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, complementing her B.S.in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.