Tina Ramirez

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About Tina Ramirez

Tina Ramirez is an author, human rights advocate, and founder of Hardwired Global. More Background: Tina Ramirez serves as the President/Executive Director of Hardwired Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to training leaders worldwide in human rights and religious freedom. She has 20 years experience working in more than 30 countries as a teacher, foreign policy expert and authority on international human rights law and religious freedom. Previously, she served as a policy advisor for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a foreign policy advisor for the U.S. Congress, where she founded the bi-partisan International Religious Freedom Caucus, and former Director of Government Relations and International Programs at Becket Law. Tina has published extensively and is the author of Iraq: Hope in the Midst of Darkness (2017) and a contributing author, and author/editor of Human Rights: Great Events From History (2019), and editor of Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and Documents (2010 and 2017). She holds a certificate from the International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, a MA in Education from Vanguard University, and a MA in International Human Rights from the University of Essex, UK. Tina has spoken before the United Nations and the African Union and testified before the U.S. Congress. In 2012, she was awarded the Second Annual Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Award for her congressional work defending their community worldwide. She previously served as Secretary of the UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief in New York and as a former board member for the First Freedom Center in Richmond, VA. She is a former candidate for the U.S. Congress in Virginia's 7th Congressional District.