Jane Barton Griffith was the co-director of Quaker humanitarian projects during the Vietnam War. She then became the chief preservation officer for the United States Treasury and Justice Department buildings and New Jersey State House. Jane led capital campaigns for several international nonprofits. Her books include two cookbooks, Shibori, a Japanese textile technique, and the footnotes for a bestselling diary by a North Vietnamese female physician. Jane lives in Connecticut in a ship captain's house and summers on Great Cranberry Island, Maine.