As county Board Supervisor from 1999 to 2006, one of Susan’s significant achievements was to initiate the Safe Parking Program in Santa Barbara County. The program enables homeless people to sleep safely in their cars or vans at night in designated parking lots. The program, now operated by an organization called New Beginnings Counseling Center, has expanded to include the City of Goleta, and some unincorporated areas in Santa Barbara County. As it is becoming […]

A private reception was held for Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, Eli Saslow, at the home of Susan Rose before his public lecture co-presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life, at UCSB Campbell Hall. Saslow discussed his new book Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, the powerful story of Derek Black, who was raised to take over […]