Hideko Tamura Snider 3.10.24

Hideko Tamura Snider was a child in Hiroshima when the city was destroyed by the atomic bomb. She later came to the US and earned her BA in Sociology and an MA in Social Work from the University of Chicago. She worked in adoption and foster care for the Chicago Child Care Society, supervised in Adult Psychiatry at the Northwestern University Medical School and was responsible for social work support for the Radiation Oncology Department of the University of Chicago Hospitals. She also maintained a private practice in psychotherapy and in cross-cultural communications for the business community. She is now retired in Southern Oregon. She has lectured extensively in the US and in the UK about the consequences of nuclear weapons and to promote peace. She founded and chairs the non-profit organization, One Sunny Day Initiatives (OSDI) , promoting peace, hope and reconciliation, while working toward a world free of nuclear weapons. Hideko was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by Wooster College, was named Peace Ambassador for the City of Hiroshima, and received the Peacekeeper Award from Ashland, Oregon’s Peace House.

Her publications, among others, include the books When a Peace Tree Blooms, and One Sunny Day: A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima.  

Below is the song All My Trials by Joan Baez that was played on the original broadcast at the very end of the show.