Susan Green is an adjunct professorial lecturer in the Department of Government at American University. She has more than three decades of experience as a law and policy advocate in the public and private sectors. She began her career litigating cases on behalf of employees, labor unions, and employee benefit plans in federal and state courts across the country, then spent three years serving as Chief Labor Counsel to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy followed by several high-ranking political appointments in the U.S. Department of Labor and six years as Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Congress Office of Compliance. Green received her B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1980 and graduated from Yale Law School in 1985.