Sharon Hom
Template:TOCnestleft Sharon Hom directs the China and International Human Rights Research Program of the Robert Bernstein Human Rights Institute at NYU School of Law. As the Executive Director of Human Rights in China (HRIC), she leads its human rights and media advocacy and strategic policy engagement with NGOs, governments, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. Hom holds a J.D. from the New York University School of Law (1980) where she was also a Root-Tilden Scholar. Professor of Law Emerita at the City University of New York School of Law, Hom taught law for 18 years, including training judges, lawyers, and law teachers at eight law schools in China. Hom served as a faculty member and director of the China Center for American Law Study in China (1988-2000), and on the US-China Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China (1990-2000). She was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of 2007’s “50 Women to Watch” for their impact on business.
Hom has actively lobbied and participated in the UN human rights system for more than 15 years and contributed to the World Summit on the Information Society process. As Executive Director of HRIC, a founding NGO member, she further contributed to the formation and development of the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on business and human rights in the information and communications technology sector. Hom has published extensively on international human rights and China, including chapters in The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights (2012), Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights: Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries (2010), and China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (2008). She is the co-editor of Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change (2007); co-editor of English-Chinese Lexicon of Women and Law (Yinghan Funu Yu Falu Cihuishiyi) (1995); and editor of Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, And Poetry (1999). [1]
National Network of Asian/Pacific Americans for Jesse Jackson
On March 9 1984, concretizing the motto, "In unity there is strength," our individual groupings formed the National Network of Asian/Pacific Americans for Jesse Jackson. Sharon Hom and Leslee Inaba-Wong (New York), Evelyn Yoshimura and Linda Mabalot (Los Angeles), Michael Liu (Boston), Ying Lee Kelley and Butch Wing (Bay Area), and Cindy Ng (Network coor dinator) signed the joint statement.[2]