Executive Director and Founder
Contact
shammond@warlegacies.org

ABOUT
Susan Hammond, the daughter of a U.S. Vietnam veteran, became interested in post-war Southeast Asia after traveling to Vietnam and Cambodia in 1991. In 1996, after earning her MA in International Education from NYU, Susan returned to Vietnam to study Vietnamese.

 

She became involved in fostering mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and addressing the long-term impacts of war while working as the Deputy Director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development (FRD) from 1996 to 2007. During this time, she lived internationally in New York, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos coordinating programs for FRD. In 2007, Susan returned to her home state of Vermont and founded War Legacies Project.

 

In 2019, she received the Vietnam Order of Friendship medal for her more than two decades of work in Vietnam. She also stays involved with local issues in her home town serving as an elected member of the Rockingham Select Board.