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Tibet Justice Center Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Robert Sloane, Chair, (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.
Yodon Thonden, Treasurer, (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.
OTHER MEMBERS
Dennis Cusack (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 (Petrolia, CA) works in ecological and watershed restoration in the Mattole River region, northwest California, and is an associate faculty member in the Geography Department at Humboldt State University. He received his M.A. in Geography from San Francisco State University and has undertaken doctoral studies in Geography at the University of Wisconsin, focusing in historical and political ecology. He works on environment and development issues for TJC.
Joshua Levenberg (San Francisco, CA) is a litigation associate in the San Francisco law firm of Heller Ehrman White + McAuliffe, where he has 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.
Nima R. Taylor Binara (Washington, DC) is a Tibetan lawyer and a litigation associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP. He previously worked at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics. His pro bono practice includes asylum advocacy and testifying before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland. While an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he co-founded the school's chapter of Students for a Free Tibet, and has been active in the Tibet movement since his youth.
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