Lena Nelson is the author of America’s Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace (Down East Books, 2023). She is a writer, teacher and citizen historian who has spent the past seventeen years researching and documenting the story of Samantha Smith and creating www.SamanthaSmith.info, the online archive of news articles and videos about Samantha Smith. She lives with her family in Southern California where she teaches English as a Second Language at Mt. San Jacinto College.
Lena Nelson 
