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Khadine Bennett is a law student at American University in Washington, D.C. A former staff member of WILD for Human Rights, and a longtime human rights activist in the Bay Area, she is well recognized and respected as a youth leader in the San Francisco Bay Area, and at the national level. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Bennett was a member
of the board at the Third Wave Foundation and an organizer with the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. As a member of WILD for Human Rights, she led the Human Rights Delegation to Durban in 2001 for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Ms. Bennett has been a member of WILD’s board of directors since 2004.

Patricia Chang currently serves as the chair of WILD for Human Rights’ board of directors. An integral part of WILD’s campaign to pass CEDAW in San Francisco, and a founding member of WILD; she has recently retired as the President & CEO of the Women’s Foundation of California, a position she held for 13 years. In addition to being a well-known activist and national figure on women’s rights, Ms. Chang has been on the board of the Women's Funding Network, the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, the Women's Leadership Alliance, the National Advisory Board for GenderPAC and the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy. She is a former commissioner with the
San Francisco Commission on the Environment and past President of
the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women.

Yumi Sera is an international development consultant focusing on organizational capacity development and philanthropy. She previously worked at the World Bank as the coordinator the Small Grants Program
(a grant program focusing on civic engagement working in over 70 countries) and the founding Secretariat for the Grants Facility for Indigenous Peoples (a global grant program focusing on Indigenous Peoples worldwide). She has also organized learning programs for staff from civil society organizations and multilateral agencies. She has also held positions at Peace Corps; as the Executive Director of Earth Train,
an international youth training organization; and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Ms. Sera has a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale School of Management, and a B.A. from Lewis and Clark College. In addition to her work on the Board of Directors for WILD for Human Rights, she has served on the International Program Committee for the Council on Foundations.

Clara Shin is a Litigation Director at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. She handles a broad range of securities, intellectual property and general commercial disputes, and has tried cases and handled appeals in both state and federal courts. In the community,
Clara has provided pro bono representation to organizations including Equal Justice Society, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, and to a state prisoner challenging the constitutionality of medical care at Pelican Bay State Prison. Prior to joining Howard Rice, Clara served as
a White House Fellow in the White House Office of the Chief of Staff; was a member of the start-up team which designed and launched AmeriCorps; coordinated a Department of Defense program to assist communities negatively affected by military downsizing; and co-designed a
Department of Housing and Urban Development program to revitalize severely distressed public housing developments. Clara's international experiences include working for the United States Agency for International Development in South Africa and participating in the creation of Tahoe-Baikal Institute in California and Siberia. She has served on the board of WILD for Human Rights since 2006.