Margaret Eastman Smith

Margaret Eastman Smith is the author of the new book A Spectacular Inheritance: What I Kept and What I Left Behind. She currently serves as the Director of the Program on Trauma Healing and Community Resilience for the Institute of World Affairs, a Washington, DC-based NGO. She served on the faculty of American University's Program on International Peace and Conflict Resolution for nearly two decades. Her academic work focuses on the role of history and memory in divided societies, as well as grassroots approaches to peacebuilding. She pursued counseling studies to get a greater understanding of these matters.