Swanee Hunt

She was married to the conductor Charles Ansbacher, who died on September 12, 2010. She has three children, among them filmmaker Henry Ansbacher, and three grandchildren.

Her book This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace won the 2005 PEN/New England Award for non-fiction and includes a foreword by former president Bill Clinton.

Hunt has received honorary doctorates from Webster University (1994), the University of Denver (2002), Graceland University (2005), Mount Ida College (2007), Pine Manor College (2007), Cambridge College (2007), Southern Methodist University (2013), Smith College (2014), William James College (2014), and Southern New Hampshire University (2016).

Swanee Hunt was appointed in 1993 as ambassador to Austria, where she was notable for writing a weekly newspaper column and radio program. She also organized women's conferences in Bosnia and otherwise worked to secure peace in the former Yugoslavia.

In 1981, she co-founded the Hunt Alternatives Fund with her sister Helen. The organization is focused on strengthening youth arts organizations; supporting leaders of social movements; opposing sex work by directly funding increased policing, public shaming, and prosecution; and increasing philanthropy. Based in Denver until 1997, the organization was relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997, when Hunt founded WAPPP at Harvard University. She has lectured at Harvard's business, law, divinity, and education graduate schools.

Swanee Grace Hunt (born May 1, 1950) is Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School, and is a former United States Ambassador to Austria. She is a recipient of the PEN/New England Award for non-fiction.