HateBrakers was founded with the goal of helping people overcome hate - hate between races, cultures and even schoolchildren who bully each other. It's based on the premise that people can change. lt;brgt;lt;brgt;Susan Balk is the Founding Director of HateBrakers. She has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Vogue, and is the author of "Fame" and "Vienna's Conscience: Close-ups and Conversations after Hitler," which was published in 2007, followed by an international exhibit on permanent display at the UN in Vienna. Susan was literary editor of Playboy. She consulted for TimeWarner, NewsCorp, Disney, Daishinsha (Tokyo) and Groupe L'Express (Paris). She taught at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.