Name: David Almog
Chapter and year joined: 1996, Columbia University
SFT Highlight: Road trip to Madison in a van.
Occupation: Rabbi
Address: New York, NY

Name: Felipe Montagnana Antunes
Chapter and year joined: 2000, Brazilian Chapter
SFT Highlight: My best memory as part of SFT was a beautiful and big presentation I made with my friends at college. All the people at the college learned what actually occurs in Tibet.
Occupation: Student and Salesman
Age: 20
Address: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Name: Andy Ayers
Chapter and year joined: 1997, Vassar Chapter
SFT highlight:  When we brought some traveling monks to Vassar, I got to drive the Rinpoche up to Albany.  He asked if we could listen to Bob Dylan, who he'd never heard before. At the end of the trip he announced approvingly that Dylan was "kooky."
Occupation: Clerk for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Age: 28
Address: New York, New York

Name: Moj Azemun
Chapter and year joined: 1996, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Age: 30
Address: San Francisco, CA
Highlight:  I can't be brief, so I won't try.

Name: Lesli Bandy
Chapter and year joined: I started a Chapter at Merced Jr. College in 1997 and in 1998 I transferred to San Diego State University where I joined the existing chapter.
SFT Highlight: Summer of 1999, Alpine Valley, Wisconsin - three of us SFTers from SDSU decided to fund a trip to the 4th and last Tibetan Freedom Concert where we volunteered all day of the concert, in the rain, to gather as many signatures as possible to stop the World Bank from funding China's development projects in Tibet. We took the Greyhound bus across the country for two days.  It was an adventure I will never forget and an experience more rewarding and fulfilling than any other.
Occupation: San Diego Chargers Vault Manager (also on the San Diego Friends of Tibet Board of Directors)
Age: 28
Address: San Diego, CA

Name: Donovan Bezer
Year joined: 1998
Occupation: Law clerk/law grad
Age: 34
Address: New Jersey

Name: Ashley Blick
Chapter and year joined: 1994, Brandeis University
SFT highlight: Bringing His Holiness to give a public address and receive an honorary degree at Brandeis in the spring of 1998, and the months before he came, where our chapter spearheaded "Seven Weeks on Tibet," a series of programs aimed at raising awareness about the Tibetan situation.
Occupation: Attorney
Age: 28
Address: San Francisco, CA

Name: Jim Blumenthal
Chapter and year joined: I started a chapter at the University of Wisconsin with Alicia Vogel in 2004
SFT Highlight: We held a number of big and small events including annual momo party fundraisers and vigils and demonstrations on March 10th and Human Rights Day. 
Occupation: Professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Philosophy Dept. at Oregon State University
Address: Portland, OR.

Name: Sarah Brewer (Laitinen, when I was a student)
Chapter and year joined: Started New School for Social Research chapter in 1995, was also SFT board member
SFT highlight: Meeting with His Holiness
Occupation: caregiver
Age: 29
Address: Fairfax, CA

Name: Maude Côté
Chapter and year joined: 1998, Université de Sherbrooke
Occupation: law graduate/taking Bar exams (also on SFT Canada Board of Directors)
Age: 24
Address: Montréal, Québec Canada

Name: Ngawang Dhargyal
Chapter and year joined: SFT India (New Delhi), 200
SFT highlight:  A wonderful moment was being the team of founding members of SFT India, and the successful launch of  SFT India in 2001 in New Delhi. I worked as coordinator for SFT India on the launch day. We organised a concert of the JJI
exile brothers.
Address: Magnolia, Arkansas

Name: Paul Donowitz
Chapter and year joined: 1995, University of Wisconsin-Madison
SFT highlight: 1st SFT National Conference - energy, excitement, the newness of the movement, talking withy other SFT members all night about Tibet, and what our visions were for the movement. Oh, and hanging a banner across from the Chinese embassy before Clinton's trip to China.
Occupation: Attorney
Age: 31
Address: Brooklyn, NY
 
Name: Billy Driscoll
Chapter and year joined: Founded Richard Stockton College Chapter, 1998
SFT highlight:1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert, His Holiness' teaching at Central Park in 1999, and all the late-night letter mailing at the SFT Office.
Occupation: Visiting Instructor of Comparative Philosophy, Richard Stockton College
Age: 28
Address: Margate, NJ

Name: Raymond Burton Estes 
Chapter and year joined: I joined as an individual student member in 2001.
SFT highlight: I went to an SFT convention in 2001 and that was great. The annual Tibetan Uprising Day protests in Houston are also memorable. However, hosting Palden Gyatso to speak at the University of Texas at Austin has probably left the most significant impression on me. I continue to cross paths with this great human being and each meeting reaffirms for me humankind's innate capability for goodness.
Occupation: Language student at the American Institute of Indian Studies Urdu Language Program in Lucknow, India
Age: 29 
Address: Tyler, Texas 

Name: Emilie Hunter
Chapter and year joined: 2003, UK
SFT Highlight: Working with SFT India and ex-political prisoners from Gu Chu Sum for the Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Action on September 2nd 2004 in Dharamsala. The day before, we had arranged to paste all of the NGOs’ posters up around Dharamsala at night, creating a Tibetan Democracy Wall. The ex-political prisoners decided that they were going in broad daylight, alone. The video footage that Karma Sichoe took was so moving: many of them had been imprisoned in Tibet for doing exactly this, and for many, it was the first time they had been involved in any political action since their release.
Occupation: Research Assistant, Politics Department, Oxford University
Age: 25
Address: Oxford, UK

Name: Aaron Jorgensen
Chapter and year joined: 1995, Williams College (co-founder)
SFT highlight: Meeting lots of wonderful people on the March for Tibet's
Independence.
Occupation: Poet, writer/data monkey for CASES.org.
Age: 29
Address: Brooklyn, NY

Name: Stephanie Jowers  
Chapter and year joined: 1995, Tufts University (also one of the first elected SFT Board members)
Occupation: Membership Manager for the National Peace Corps Association   
Address: Washington, DC
SFT Highlight: I met so many extraordinary and compassionate people during my time as an SFT activist. But, SFT's first private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama was a true, humbling standout. From live benefit shows, board meeting pow-wows, and conference planning – to Milarepa-SFT bus tours with buzz queen nuns, an unforgettable late, stormy evening with Palden Gyatso, and the non-stop good Tibetan eats – I am truly grateful for all the unique, funny memories during my time with SFT. (Plus, where else could I have witnessed a hot dance off by Dave Grohl and Bjork?)

Name: M. Greg Katsoulis
Chapter and year joined: 1996, New York University (NYU Chapter founder/president '96-'98)SFT highlight: Daily coffee and donuts with Thupten, the national conferences (Brown, Wisconsin, New York), the DC rally, all of the New York rallies, the freedom concerts, Diana T., Lhadon, Dara T., John H. Paul D., tall Paul, Sara, Evan, Rhabbi Raver Dave, and all of the other divine beings I had the pleasure of working with while I was on the NYU chapter.Occupation: Attorney
Age: 28
Address: Syracuse, NY

Name: Eve Mullen   
Chapter and year joined: Harvard University
SFT highlight: A wonderful, moving presentation at Harvard from a monk who had recently escaped Tibet.
Occupation: Assistant Professor of Religion at Mississippi State University (and advisor to a new SFT chapter!)
Age: 36
Address: Mississippi State, MS

Name: Kathy Nguyen
Chapter and year joined: I first heard about the plight of Tibet through Amnesty International, which I joined when I was 15 or 16. I didn't know about SFT until college. When I couldn't find a chapter in my ultra-conservative school (Texas A&M U) in po-dunk town College Station, TX (population 100,000 - of which 45,000 were students @ A&M), I decided to start up my own chapter, which I headed for 2 years. I moved out to Los Angeles, CA, where I became a member of LA Friends of Tibet. I received the Volunteer of the Year Award, and, after just 1 year of volunteering, was asked to join the Board of Directors. 2 years into the board, I was asked to become Vice President of the organization. I just expired my term as VP and Director this past November 04, but I am still the Volunteer Coordinator and an active volunteer.
SFT Highlight: My best memory of SFT (next to seeing John Hocevar in a purple dress!) was drudging in the rain and mud while helping Free Tibet Action Campers take down their tents in Malibu, CA. What team work! The moment wasn't directly related to the Tibetan cause, but it definitely proved to show how committed we are to each other as, not only activists, but as human beings. Now, this is when you say "aaaaawwwwwww", right??? Ha ha!
Occupation: Case Manager
Age: 29
Address: Los Angeles, CA
 
Name: Thupten Nyima, aka Thupten N Chakrishar
Chapter and year joined: 1997, Dharamsala Chapter
SFT highlight: The best memory I have is of 2002, when after finishing school, I and Tenzin Choeying started an SFT Chapter in Delhi University. On the inaugural day, we were overwhelmed by hundreds of Indian students signing up for SFT membership, collecting/reading materials related to Tibet, writing messages and signing on the huge banner we had created for the imprisoned Panchen Lama. Hundreds of Indian students showed up, demonstrating full support. It was a huge success. That is the finest memory I have of SFT back in India.
Occupation: Student/Non liner video editor.
Age: 25
Address: Astoria, New York

Name: Dave Rogers
Chapter and year joined: 1996, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Occupation: Lawyer
SFT Highlight: Palden Gyatso’s speech in Halifax in 1998.
Age: 28
Address: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
Name:  Geoffrey R. Thomas
Chapter and year joined: I started a chapter at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1998
SFT highlight: Hosting the monks of Ganden Jangtse Monastery for one week, with the highlight being a Cowell College dinner during which we served a traditional Tibetan dinner for over 300 people and the monks performed a puja and dedication for the sand mandala that they had constructed over the previous 5 days.
Occupation: Master candidate in Traditional Chinese Medicine
 Age: 26
Address: San Diego, CA

Name: Giovanni Vassallo
Chapter and year joined: 1997, Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC)
SFT highlight: When the Asian Pacific Islander Association, the International Club, and the Associated Students of SRJC all teamed up with our SFT group to host our first "Tibet Awareness Night." It was a wonderful event, attend by over 100 people. The success of this event and the training provided by SFT and the invaluable thoughtful oversight and friendship of  the then SFT area coordinator, Shreve Lafromente, helped propel me into years of impactful & successful activism for Tibetan & human rights.
Occupation: Administrative Analyst (also president of Bay Area Friends of Tibet)
Age: 36
Address: San Francisco, CA

Name: Claire Veisseire
Chapter and year joined: 2000, Vancouver, BC
SFT Highlight: SFT action camp in flooded Los Angeles and the SFT action in Beijing during the Team Canada Trade mission to China. I was on call with the media on behalf of SFT for this action. I had never used a cell phone before...I got to learn very quickly. I was being paid to be a research assistant at a conference, and ended up being on the phone with the media all the time and was hardly seen at the conference. One day one of the professors said, “Hey Claire, saw you on TV last night...it was during the day!” Yikes, I was so burned.
Occupation: Doula/Birth attendant
Age: 30
Address: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Name: Tsering Wangmo
Chapter and year joined: 2000, University of Massachusetts-Boston
SFT Highlight: Our team of about 25 students organized a successful Tibetan Cultural Festival in November, 2000 and we had over 500 people attend from inside and outside the University community.