Martha Hathaway
Co-Founder & Executive Director

Born in Chicago, Martha Hathaway found her love for international work when she first traveled to Asia at age eighteen. Two years later, she lived in Andhra Pradesh, India for a year while she researched and wrote a paper on a youth-based non-governmental organization.

Her professional career started in 1993 with the Japan-America Society of Washington State, where she served as Program Affairs Assistant for three years. After departing from the Japan America Society in early 1997, Hathaway worked for PeaceTrees Vietnam as a program manager and was quickly promoted to Executive Director. She made frequent trips to Vietnam to manage and implement the activities of the humanitarian effort. Hathaway graduated with honors in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon .