After 26 years of calling the shots, Essence Magazine's Susan Taylor departs

-YOSH Susan Taylor, the Editor in Chief turned Editorial Director at Essence Magazine, after getting in one more vacation on her employer, is packing it in after 37 years with the magazine to focus on her passion of mentoring children. From her vacation in South Africa via email (possibly a blackberry) Ms. Taylor informed her colleagues of her plan to leave when she gets back to the states in mid January. After 37 years, with the publication, we're sure Ms. Taylor has all the vacation time in the world, and will even have to be paid for left-overs she may have. “I am taking a break in South Africa and will have little access to e-mail,” she wrote in an automated out-of-office message this month. “When I come back to the states in mid-January, I will be leaving Essence to do what at this juncture in my life has become a larger work for me — building the National Cares Mentoring Movement, which I founded as Essence Cares and today is my deepest passion.” Essence Editor Is Leaving Magazine [NYT] Image via: Zulu Rose