Susan Yohn acts as the administrative and financial director of Women Cross DMZ, serving as the liaison between the organization and its fiscal sponsor, the Peace Development Fund, which helps build the capacity of community-based organizations committed to peace and social justice.
She joins the organization after a career as Professor in the Departments of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. She was also President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians from 2014-17 a professional organization which triennially sponsors the largest international meeting of historians working in the fields of women’s and gender history.