Staff & Interns

Office Manager (Part-Time)

Dickyi D Charwathakyi is from Kollegal Tibetan Settlement, South India. She did her schooling from TCV Bylakuppe and completed her Bachelor’s degree in Banking Management and M.A in Human Rights from Ethiraj College, Madras. Dickyi  worked for the Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet and Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Dharamsala. In May 2009, she graduated from University of Northern Iowa with Master in Social Work.

Community Coordinator (Part-Time)

Ugyen Tsering escaped from Tibet at a very young age and joined the Central School for Tibetans in Mussoorie, India.  He joined Hans Raj College, University of Delhi in 1971 and obtained a bachelors degree in Economics. Ugyen obtained another bacherlors degree in Education in 1976 from the Banaras Hindu University and worked as a teacher and later as a school administrator for over 17 years in India.  He was selected to receive a Fullbright Scholarship in 1992 and studied at the University of New Hampshire where he received a degree in Economics of Land and Resource use.  Ugyen immigrated to the U.S. in 1998.  He has served as Vice President of TANC for one term and Chartel Committee (Green Book) member for over two years.

Interns

Lindsay Kelley is an artist and writer currently researching bioart, fringe foods, and uncommon modes of food preparation and ingestion. She teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she recently completed her Ph.D and MFA. She learned to quilt from her grandmother.

Lindsay is helping TANC’s Tibetan Memorial Quilt Project as a quilter and developing proposals to Bay-Area based museums, libraries, schools, art centers to exhibit the completed quilts.

Sonam Tsering grew up in Nepal and India. He is an alum of Dr. Graham’s Homes in Kalimpong, India and completed his undergraduate from Truman State University in Missouri. He is a 2009 recipient of TANC’s Betsy Gordon Scholarship.  Sonam is pursuing his career in Accounting at the College of Marin. Sonam feels “very fortunate to be studying in the United States…and feels deeply humbled and lucky” to be a recipient of the Betsy Gordon Scholarship this year.  He “would also like to help fellow Tibetans and the Tibetan Community” by using “skills I learn from my education”. He is currently giving back to the TANC community by doing research on the many Tibetan martyrs who are memorialized on the Tibetan Memorial quilts and helping with organization of names for the project.  By volunteering for the Tibetan Memorial Quilt Project, Sonam “feels tremendous [gratitude] to be able to honor those Tibetans who gave up their lives for freedom in Tibet, in this small way if nothing.”