Awaken

An attorney, author and motivational speaker, Susan Omilian has worked extensively as an advocate to end violence against women for the past forty years. With the death of her nineteen-year-old niece Maggie shot and killed in 1999 by her ex-boyfriend, Susan's work on behalf of women became more personal and immediate. She vowed to help other women move on after abuse and create a new life for themselves and their children as Maggie could not. The originator and facilitator of My Avenging Angel WorkshopsTM based on the idea that living well is the best revenge, Susan's work has helped hundreds of women take the journey from victim to survivor to thriver! Her books in The Thriver Zone SeriesTM and her novels in The Best Revenge SeriesTM contain the motivational guidance that she has successfully used to help women reclaim their lives after experience domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. It builds on her previous work that includes in the 1970s, founding a rape crisis center, and representing battered women in divorce proceedings in the early 1980s. She also litigated sex discrimination cases including helping to articulate the legal concept that made sexual harassment illegal in the 1990s. She is a published author of several books on women's issues including sex discrimination law as well as numerous articles and essays for newspapers and magazines including The Voice, The Journal of the Battered Women's Movement published by The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV.) Susan holds a law degree from Wayne State University in Detroit and a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. She has practiced law in both Connecticut and Michigan.