Susan Smith is director of operations and community engagement of the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA (FOR-USA), and a member of the International Committee of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), for which she serves as a UN representative.  In 2024, on behalf of IFOR and FOR-USA, she helped launch and develop a Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine network. She is a founding member of the International Sanctuary Declaration Campaign, and has been involved in justice and resettlement work with migrants in Italy, Greece, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, the Western Sahara, and Algeria, as well as with the unhoused in the USA. She is a former resident of the Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point Center, an intentional community of Jews, Christians and Muslims drawing upon the core of their faith traditions to engage in peace and social justice work. A former Islamic school principal, she is the author of Biblical Children’s Stories As Told in the Qur’an published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an (2017). Susan is a former United Nations employee who worked in the Department of Public Information and Department of Peace-keeping Operations in the Western Sahara. For four years, she served as assistant and speech writer to the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the UN. She has studied and worked in the Middle East for five years and is deeply committed to ending war, violence, militarism, resource exploitation and forced migration in that region, particularly as led and driven by the US Empire and its allies.  In her spare time, she is a member of Ban Killer Drones and an organizer for the Weaponized Drone Ban Treaty Campaign. She loves her daughters, cats, yoga and nature.