Lhakar Diaries

Regular Con(TIB)uters to Lhakar Diaries: 

kunsangkelden: Born in New York City to a Tibetan father and a Kalmyk-Mongolian mother, she grew up in New Jersey where she founded her first chapter of Students for a Free Tibet in 2002. Kunsang served as Regional Coordinator for SFT New England from 2005-2007 where she studied Art and Social Change at Hampshire College. She later served on SFT’s International Board of Directors from 2007-2009.

manirilbu: Jigdal is a Tibetan born in exile. After having worked with SFT UK in 2008-2010, he now works with SFT India and looks forward to day when he too can say “Now I am somebody with a nation.”

nycyak: Tsering is doing a Masters in Fine Arts at Columbia University, New York, where she’s also working as a creative writing and composition teacher. She was National Director of Students for a Free Tibet Canada from 2007-09.

pemayoko: Pema Yoko is a Tibetan activist living in London, working for Students for a Free Tibet UK as the National Coordinator. She believes Tibet will be free, because Tibetans across the world will actively push the boundaries and work hard for it.

dtseten: Dorjee Tseten is a Free Tibet Activist. SFT India National Director.

tenzinlobsang: Tenzin Lobsang was born in India, raised in Canada, and is currently based in Ottawa. She was the National Director of Students for a Free Tibet Canada from 2009-2011. She first got involved in SFT in 2005 by starting up a chapter in Ottawa, where she also worked for the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet in the office of the Hon. Senator Consiglio Di Nino for nearly two years.

Tendolkar: Tenzin Dolkar (TenDolkar) was born in a Tibetan refugee settlement in south India and moved to the U.S. when she was 10 years old. She attended Mount Holyoke College where she studied Biology and Anthropology. She joined the SFT chapter at her school in 2005 and served as co-chair and Regional Coordinator for the New England region from 2007-08. She also attended two of SFT’s flagship Free Tibet! Action Camps. TenDolkar interned with SFT HQ in the summer of ’08 and was one of the key organizers of NYC’s Team Tibet.

dlo08: Dawa L. Tibetan. Woman. Graduate student.

The Young Turquoise Bee: currently studying psychology and public relations at Sarah Lawrence College in NY. She is particularly interested in the psychology of those experiencing genocide and community building initiatives. She is very invested in cultural preservation and Buddhist studies with her mother being Kalmyk Mongolian, and her father being Tibetan.

Migmar Dolma: Tibetan, born and raised in Switzerland. Just finished high-school this year. The uprisings in Tibet in 2008 made her become active in the movement. Since 2010 she’s a board member of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE). She thinks that a free Tibet is only possible if Tibetans inside and outside work hard together for the common goal. Therefore Lhakar is important for our movement.

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