Ian is a founding member of COAR’s Board of Directors. Professionally, Ian works as a diversity/anti-racism consultant, facilitating workshops nationally for schools and organizations on issues of multiculturalism, combating racism, and promoting social justice. In addition to his work with COAR, Ian serves on Amnesty International’s Multicultural Assessment and Advisory Committee and has undertaken human rights work in Nepal, Tibet, Uruguay, and most recently, he spent several months in Phnom Penh, Cambodia doing work in international human rights law. Ian will take COAR’s mission of serving refugees and promoting refugee rights into the international arena, beginning a J.D. in International Human Rights Law and M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution starting fall 2006.