OFFICERS

Robert D. Sloane, President, (Boston, MA), is an associate professor of law at Boston University School of Law, where his research and teaching focus on international law. After graduating from Yale Law School in 2000, he worked for Tibet Justice Center under the auspices of Yale's Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights; clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; practiced international law at Debevoise & Plimpton; and served as a Visiting Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School and an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. In 2007, he received a high-level diploma in public international law from The Hague Academy of International Law. Prior to and since joining the Board, he has been involved with the Center's fact-finding research and reporting, asylum work, and U.N. advocacy.

Dennis Cusack, Treasurer (Berkeley, CA), is a litigation partner in the San Francisco law firm of Farella Braun + Martel. A member of the Board since 1995, Dennis oversees all of the Center's work, and participates actively in our human rights and U.N. advocacy projects as a writer, editor and strategist.

John Isom, Executive Director and Secretary (Petrolia, CA), has served on the board of directors of Tibet Justice Center since February 2005, and as TJC’s executive director since November 2008. Mr. Isom has been involved in Tibet advocacy since 1991, largely working on environment and development issues.

Nima R. T. Binara, (Washington, DC), is an attorney at the United States Department of Justice.  He previously served as Senior Counsel to Intelsat Corporation, and prior to that worked at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and the China Public Policy Program at Harvard University.  He received his law degrees from Columbia Law School and the London School of Economics.  He currently serves on the board of the Global Tibetan Professionals Network-North America, and is a member of the American Bar Association.

Joshua Levenberg, (San Francisco, CA), is an attorney at Pacific Gas & Electric Company.  He has successfully represented numerous Tibetans seeking asylum in the United States on a pro bono basis. He has traveled extensively, including multiple trips to Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and China. He obtained his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

Wangchuk Shakabpa, (New York, NY), has served on the TJC board since 2007, is also a board member of board member of US-Tibet Committee since 2002 and has been a board member of Students for a Free Tibet. He is currently an attorney with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in New York. He graduated Georgetown Law in 1992. His roots in Tibetan legal matters run deep: his late grandfather, Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, former Finance Minister in the Tibetan Government, led the Tibetan trade delegation in 1948 and was the author of Tibet: A Political History.

Yodon Thonden, (New York, NY), a Tibetan and Harvard graduate, was raised in New York, where her parents eventually settled after their flight from Tibet. Yodon served as staff attorney for the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch from 1996 to 2001. She is currently the director of the Isdell Foundation in New York.