Lhadon Tethong

Lhadon Tethong "is Tibetan-Canadian. She has been an outspoken Tibetan independence activist since the moment she learned to talk, and she founded the first Students for a Free Tibet chapter at the University of Kings College. After graduation, Lhadon moved to New York to begin working for SFT. Her many accomplishments include taking on BP Amoco and ExxonMobil at their shareholder meetings, speaking to a crowd of 66,000 at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington DC, and inspiring countless students to get involved with the Tibetan freedom movement."