Kelsang Aukatsang:
Kelsang is the Development Director at the Natural Capital Institute, a nonprofit based in Sausalito, CA. His experience includes working as the U.S. Representative for Instituto Terra, a Brazilian environmental organization founded by the Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado. He was with the Tides Foundation (San Francisco) from 2000-2003 as a Philanthropic Advisor where he advised and managed some of Tides' institutional and family foundation clients. Prior to Tides, he worked at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York City) on the Fund's grantmaking programs in Central Europe, and South Africa. Kelsang was with the International Campaign for Tibet (Washington, D.C.) from 1993 to 1996. He has a BA from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India; and an MA degree in International Business and Politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston.

Chris McKenna:
Chirs is a Board member and Projects Coordinator of Tibet Justice Center, a committee of lawyers that provides support to the Tibetan people at the United Nations and other international fora and reports on a variety of Tibetan human rights and refugee issues. He is also the Development Director of the Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA), a human rights organization launched by Amnesty International and the UN Fund for Victims of Torture that helps torture survivors hold human rights abusers legally accountable, provides referrals for medical and psycho-social services for survivors and their family members, and works to ensure that the U.S. legal system plays a role in the international human rights movement. He has been a grant and communications writer for the American Civil Liberties Union, Vision Youthz, WITNESS and numerous other social justice and community development nonprofits. Chris serves on the Board of Directors of Bay Area International Development Organizations (BAIDO), the largest network of international development NGOs in the Western U.S. He received his B.A. in 1999 from Columbia University in Middle-Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures (MEALAC).

Chime Lhamo:
Chime Lhamo is from Lugsam Tibetan Settlement, Bylakuppe of South India. Before immigrating to US in 1992, Chime served Tibetan Co-operative Society Stores, Sermey Handicraft Center and Namdrolling Monastery as accountant for nearly fifteen years. She also served Tibetan Children's Welfare Association sponsored by German Aid to Tibetans Mrs. Irmtraut Wager, as accountant cum Secretary. Chime is a dedicated daughter, wife and mother. While struggling hard to bring her big family over, she worked day and night. She also served Tibetan Community as Green Book collector for two years. Chime Lhamo is former President of Tibetan Association of Northern California and decided to join TCC core team in order to continue her dedication and work hard to achieve community's dream goal in creating a Community Center for Tibetans in Bay Area.

Fran Strachan:
Fran Strachan has been working with the Tibetan Community for 15 years. In 1991 he was one of the first employers in the Bay Area to employ Tibetans through the Resettlement Project. Over the years, his company (Zia Natural Skincare) employed a number of Tibetans until the company was acquired in 2005. Fran also served on the Board of Directors of The Tibet Justice Center for a number of years in the late 90's. Fran is a graduate of Merrimack College in North Andover Massachusetts. He lives in Mill Valley with his wife Amy and two sons, Skye and Kieran

Kalsang Y. Tashi:
Kalsang works for a private wealth management team at UBS Financial Services in San Francisco. Kalsang attended the Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) school and graduated from Woodstock International School in India. She received her Bachelors degree in Economics and Peace & Conflict Resolution Studies from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. At Brandeis, she was the President of the Students for a Free Tibet chapter. She has interned at the International Campaign for Tibet office in Washington, DC and prior to relocating to the Bay Area, worked with the Agile Group in Colorado in their investor relations department. Kalsang is also on the board of San Francisco Tibetan Youth Congress and occasionally volunteers for the Tibetan Village Project, a Denver based Tibetan-run non-profit that does grassroots development work in Tibet.

Kasur Tenzin N. Tethong:
Tenzin is currently the Director of The Asian Religions & Cultures (ARC)/Tibet, a project of the Committee for Tibetan Studies to build resources for the study of Tibetan religions and cultures at Stanford University. He left Tibet in the late 1950s and served in the Tibetan government-in-exile for almost 20 years. He spent the early part of his life in India, attending Tibetan refugee and missionary schools. He was the former Chairman of the Kashag, the Tibetan Cabinet. Tenzin was the advisor for the film "Seven Years in Tibet," and has been integrally involved in the founding of the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, as well as the International Campaign for Tibet. He is currently Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet, and President of the Dalai Lama Foundation.

Sonam Thunden:
Sonam is a graduate of Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. Her parents are from Kanze, Eastern Tibet but she grew up in Darjeeling, India. While living in Japan, she started a Tibet support ogranization, Tibet Friend Hokkaido, which helped built the first school, Ngoenga School, for Tibetan handicapped children in Dehradun, India in 2000. Sonam currently works as Finance Associate for Google in Mountain View, CA. Before joining Google, she worked for two Japanese corporations, NTT and Yaskawa. Sonam speaks English, Tibetan, Hindi, Nepali and Japanese. She is an amateur potter and has two cats, Sanu and Rudy.