Our People
Board, Advisory & Staff
Meet the dedicated individuals who guide, support, and bring the work of HCSC to life.
Leadership
Patron & Executive Leadership
Governance
Board of Directors
Dechen Pema
Board Member
M.A. in Tibetan Studies (Central University for Nationalities, Beijing) and Anthropology (UC Berkeley). Director of Administration at BDRC. Previously worked at UC Berkeley's East Asian Library. Fluent in Tibetan, Chinese, and English.
Tenzin Gelek
Board Member
Expert in Himalayan art and culture, former Senior Specialist at the Rubin Museum of Art. Co-founder of The Latse Project. M.A. in Nonprofit Management from The New School University and B.A. in Anthropology from Oxford Brookes University.
Master Yuan and Dong
Board Member
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Steve Zu
Board Member
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Advisors
Advisory Board
Venerable Geshe Lhakdor
Advisory Board
Has served His Holiness the Dalai Lama as translator and religious assistant since 1989. Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and leader of its Science Education Project. Director of the Central Archive of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Rinchen Dharlo
Advisory Board
Former President of the Tibet Fund for 18 years. Co-chaired the Tibetan-U.S. Resettlement Project, facilitating resettlement of 1,000 Tibetan refugees across 21 cities in the United States between 1992 and 1993.
Sonam Tsering
Advisory Board
Director of the Tibetan language program at Columbia University. Previously taught at University of Michigan, with remote teaching at Yale and Ohio State. Originally from Rebgong (Qinghai, PRC). Founder and editor of Tibet Times newspaper.
Kristina Dy-Liacco
Advisory Board
Tibetan Studies Librarian at Columbia University's C.V. Starr East Asian Library and at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto. Co-founder of The Latse Project. MA in Tibetan Studies from Indiana University; MLIS from University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Staff
Our Team
Tenzin Norbu
Program Director | Music & Dance Director
Trained artist from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), specializing in traditional Tibetan music and dance. Born in Lhasa, educated in India, and has performed internationally across India, the US, Germany, Taiwan, and Bhutan. Based in New York since 2014.
Tenzin Kalsang
Administrative Coordinator
Senior Children's Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library. Holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dedicated to early childhood education and introducing Dharma to young learners in an accessible and meaningful way.
Sonam Yangdon
Danang Weekend School Director
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Jampa
Librarian
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Zokchen Tenam
Librarian
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Chungta
Librarian
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