Susan King joined the staff of the Life Science and Society Program in October of 2004. She received her doctorate of ministry in spirituality from the Graduate Theological Foundation (GTF), a theological graduate studies program affiliated with 256 universities around the world. She completed a majority of her course work and had a research fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford in England, along with course work at Notre Dame University and Mundeline Seminiary in Chicago. Currently, Susan is completing a Ph.D. in Pastoral Psychology from GTF. Susan is also an ordained Interfaith Minister, specializing in the facilitation of dialogue to identify areas of mutuality and shared concerns across the faith traditions. Part of her doctoral studies included in-depth seminars on the dialogue between science and religion.

Susan has been teaching at Siena Heights University in their adult degree completion program for six years. She also serves as the chair of the coordinating committee for the Interfaith Roundtable of Washtenaw County, an affiliate of the National Council for Community and Justice. Prior to that she was a campus Minister for Guild House, an interfaith student center at U-M, and ran the Ann Arbor Hunger Coalition, the Community Free Dinner Program for five years. While completing her master's studies, Susan was a research secretary and research assistant in the departments of Epidemiology and Environmental and Industrial Health for the School of Public Health at U-M.