Profile Category: Team

Tenzin Dorjee is a Senior Researcher and Strategist at Tibet Action Institute and the Stephanie G. Neuman Fellow in Comparative Defense Studies at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the former executive director of Students for a Free Tibet and the author of The Tibetan Nonviolent Struggle: A Strategic and Historical Analysis. His work has been published in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Council on Foreign Relations' Asia Unbound, and the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief.

Kate began working with Tibet Action Institute in 2014. She has driven several high-impact campaigns for the Tibet movement, including Students for a Free Tibet’s 2008 Beijing Olympics campaign. She has over a decade of experience training Tibetans and youth in nonviolent civil resistance, campaign strategy, media communications, and leadership development. After working in China for a year, and visiting Tibet in 1999, she committed herself to the cause for freedom and human rights in Tibet. Upon completing her Bachelor of Arts (honors) in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, she helped start Students for a Free Tibet Canada where she was the organization’s Director for three years. She was Students for a Free Tibet’s Deputy Director from 2009-2013.

Tenzin Lobsang began working with Tibet Action in 2015. She first actively got involved in the Tibet movement when she started a chapter of Students for a Free Tibet at the University of Ottawa in Canada. From 2006-2008, she served as coordinator for the Canadian Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, working at the Canadian Parliament in the office of the Honourable Senator Consiglio Di Nino. There, she coordinated the first Parliamentary Friends of Tibet Internship Program, which has since seen dozens of young Tibetan-Canadians work in Parliament. She went on to lead Students for a Free Tibet-Canada as National Director from 2009-2011. Subsequently, she worked as Finance and Administration Manager of an international development NGO in Ottawa from 2012-2015. She has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting from the University of Ottawa and a CPA designation.