Jason Parker interviews Susan Garland about charitable giving.

Susan B. Garland is editor of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, a monthly personal finance publication for retirees and those approaching retirement. The publication covers all topics related to retirement, including investments, taxes, Social Security, pensions, personal money management, philanthropy, annuities, estate planning, health care, housing and leisure activities.

For 12 years, Ms. Garland was a Washington-based correspondent for Business Week magazine. While on the social policy beat, she covered benefits, poverty, retirement issues, health care and workplace issues. As a White House and national politics reporter, she covered the first term of the Clinton administration. While on the legal affairs beat, she wrote about the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of Microsoft and the subsequent federal trial. Ms. Garland also has been a freelance writer, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week and other publications.

Ms. Garland has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNBC, AARP’s Inside E Street, the Nightly Business Report, Retirement Living TV, Fox News and Court TV.

Ms. Garland is a graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. She lives in Bethesda, Md., with her husband, James Feldesman, an attorney.