Stella Tamang (Tamang)
Stella Tamang was chair of the International Indigenous Women's Caucus at the third session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, is the convenor of the South Asia Indigenous Women's Forum, and the founder and founding chair of Nepal Tamang Women Ghedung.  She is also the founder and founding Chair of National Indigenous Women Federation, Nepal which is the umbrella organization of 41 Indigenous women’s organizations of Nepal. She was one of the Commissioners of the High Level Commission on State Restructuring of Nepal.  She founded Bikalpa Gyan Tatha Bikas Kendra in Nepal to contribute to students' education and livelihood by combining academic learning with practical training. She is one of the only women facilitators and is the chair of Nepal Transition To Peace Institute.

Stephen P. Marks
Stephen P. Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, where he directs the Program on Human Rights in Development. With degrees in law and international relations from Stanford and several universities in France, as well as the Syrian Arab Republic, he has worked for the United States Senate (Washington, DC), the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), UNESCO (Paris, France), the Ford Foundation (New York), UN peacekeeping operations (Cambodia, Western Sahara) and the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva). Before joining Harvard in 1999, he taught at the Law School and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Rutgers Law School, Cardozo School of Law, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor and Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at Jindal Global University in India. His publications focus on international law, development, biotechnology, mass atrocities, terrorism, cultural rights, tobacco control, access to medicines, human rights education, neuroscience, mental health and the right to health.

Laura R. Graham
Laura R. Graham is an anthropologist, filmmaker and activist. She is professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa and president-elect of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America. Her research focuses on Indigenous agency and politics of representation among Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America. She has studied and worked with A’uwẽ-Xavante of central Brazil since 1981 and more recently with Wayuu of Venezuela. Graham has written extensively on Indigenous speech, expressive culture, and forms of self-representation in national and international arenas, including ethnographic spectacle and use of new media technologies. Her books include the award-winning, Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil (1995; Portuguese edition with original field recordings 2018), Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences (2014) and Language and Social Justice in Practice (2018). With David Hernández-Palmar (Wyauu) and Caimi Waiassé (A’uwẽ-Xavante), she co-directed the film Owners of the Water: Conflict and Collaboration over Rivers (2009).  From 1994-2005, Laura directed the Xavante Education Fund, a Cultural Survival Special Project, and now serves as a coordinator of A’uwẽ-Xavante projects with Cultural Survival. She is writing a book on A’uwẽ-Xavante uses of audiovisual technologies and their efforts to achieve representational sovereignty.

Nicole Friederichs, Clerk
Friederichs is a Practitioner-in-Residence at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA, where she teaches the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic which serves the Native nation building needs of the New England's Tribal governments as well as engages with international human rights mechanisms on behalf of Indigenous communities and organizations. Prior to joining Suffolk, she practiced federal Indian law and international human rights law working on a range of cases, including jurisdictional cases between Native American Tribes and New England states, and Indigenous Peoples land rights cases before the international and regional human rights bodies. Nicole also has experience in the international development sector supporting community development and education programs located in West Africa. She holds a LLM in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy from the University of Arizona, a JD from Suffolk University Law School, and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the London School of Economics. 

Steven Heim, Treasurer

Steven Heim is a Managing Director for Boston Common Asset Management, an investment manager and a leader in global impact initiatives. Steven has over 25 years of experience in the responsible investment field. Steven’s efforts to protect the human rights of Indigenous Peoples have helped catalyze positive policy changes at U.S. and international companies. From 2007 to 2019 he chaired the advocacy subcommittee of the Investors & Indigenous Peoples Working Group. Most recently, he has helped lead global investor engagements with global banks regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline and urging banks to revise the Equator Principles for project finance to respect Indigenous Peoples rights. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples.

Miranda Vitello, Development Coordinator, processes all donations, manages the membership database, and coordinates the internship program. Before joining the Cultural Survival staff in 2011, Miranda assisted with the creation of the Wampanoag teaching kit at the Boston Children’s Museum, conducted research on contemporary Native American artists for the Museum of Fine Arts, and organized cultural awareness presentations in elementary schools during an internship at United Planet. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University. She enjoys painting and her artwork has been displayed at numerous galleries in the Boston area. Contact Miranda at mvitello@cs.org.

Rosy Sul González (Maya Kaqchikel), Indigenous Rights Radio Program Manager, is from the town of Sumpango, Sacatepéquez, in Guatemala. She studied communication sciences at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City, and for five years volunteered at Radio Ixchel, the local community radio in Sumpango, where she hosted live talk shows and entertainment programs and promoted human rights. She has traveled as a representative of Cultural Survival to communities in Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, and several international fora, such as the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In each place, she shares the purpose, challenges, successes, and importance of community radio as a tool for community development and organizing, and in the international arena, she has worked to demand that community radio be respected at the global level so that Indigenous Peoples can freely access it. Contact Rosy at rosy@cs.org.