What is your name and department?
Susie Trzaskus, Science department.
Do you have any hobbies?
I crochet, I like to garden veggies and flowers during the summer, I also play pickleball.
What was your first Job?
Working at an F&M drugstore when I was fifteen or babysitting, but my first paycheck came from F&M drugstore.
What made you want to teach biology?
Well it’s kind of a long answer, I wanted to be a doctor, I love science and my grandma always told me I should be in science. As a freshman I had a really great biology teacher and loved it; I ended up going to school for a major in bio and minor in chem.
What hardships have you faced and how did you overcome them? ← as a teacher at NN
I think the greatest hardships at North are when my students have difficulties. I’ve lost a couple of students and they’ve had difficulties and hardships and I connect with my colleagues who share the same concern so we work to do what we can together.
What do you do in MSAN (multicultural student achievement club?
Multicultural student achievement network, it’s a club of four student leaders that represent the BIPOC community. These students have worked to increase access for all students while working alongside the district administration, specifically focused on raising BIPOC students to high level and AP courses.
What is your all time favorite movie?
Star Wars definitely.
If you could teach any other subject what would it be?
Probably psychology, it’s truly a science and I love to learn about how our physiology and our mental health are connected, how we’re raised, our genes and how we can adapt; overall what we can do to create a more combined study of both.
What is your favorite place on earth
It would have to be the Rocky Mountains, because I love nature, I love places where there’s moving water, and I love the noise of the water and the vegetation.
Who is your favorite music artist?
Jason Mraz, I really like him a lot.
What is your favorite quote?
“I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor, and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and each other.” Laverne Cox.
