The Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Each year Human Rights Watch honors individuals who have put their lives and safety at risk in the name of defending human rights. They often work alone, guided only by their sense of justice.
Please join us on November 19 at the Voices for Justice dinner in San Francisco to honor this year's human rights defenders Elena Milashina from Russia and Daniel Bekele from Ethiopia for their leadership, tenacity, and courage to speak out in the face of repression.
To register for the event, please click here.
Dinner Chairs
Amy Rao
Darian W. Swig
Susie Tompkins Buell
& Mark Buell
Honorary Chairs
Linda & Jon Gruber
Herb & Marion Sandler
Orville Schell
Honorary Committee
Maya Ajmera
Joan Baez
Naila Bolus
William Coblentz
Peter & Stefanie Coyote
Gloria Duffy
Elizabeth Farnsworth
Wavy Gravy
Adam Hochschild
Khaled Hosseini
Sean Penn
Kavita Ramdas
Robert Redford
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Eric Stover
Jane Wales
Alice Waters
Dinner Committee
Maureen Blanc
James J. Brosnahan
Carole Carney
Rebecca Draper
Carla Emil
Randi Fisher
David Keller
Marty Krasney
Shelley Lazar
Terri Luchsinger
Nion McEvoy
John Micek
Belinda V. Muñoz
Julie Parish
Joan R. Platt
Shefali Razdan Duggal
Tiffany Shlain
Susan Swig
Kirby Walker
We are grateful to the following for their support:
Dinner Chairs
Amy Rao & Harry Plant
Darian & Rick Swig
Susie Tompkins Buell
& Mark Buell
Honorary Chairs
Linda & Jon Gruber
Herb & Marion Sandler
Orville Schell
Leadership Circle
Anita & David Keller
Joan R. Platt
Wendy Schmidt
Stephen Silberstein
Guardians
Carole & Lloyd Carney
Laurene Powell Jobs
Jane & Ron Olson
Wendy Webster & Stuart Davidson
Champions
Carla Emil & Rich Silverstein
Esther John & Aart de Geus
Levi Strauss Foundation
Nion McEvoy
Susan & Gib Myers
Natembea Foundation
Friends of The Philanthropy Workshop West
Victoria Riskin & David W. Rintels
Mindy Uhrlaub
Advocates
Randi & Bob Fisher
Robyn Hollingshead
Pamela & Marty Krasney
The Lisa & John Pritzker Family Fund
Terri Luchsinger
John Micek
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Partners
Anne & Gregory Avis
Richard C. Barker
Bingham McCutchen LLP
James J. Brosnahan
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP
Elizabeth Colton
Christine & Francis Currie
Emerge
Sakurako & William Fisher
Michelle & Robert Friend
Lynn & Donald Glaser
Frances Hall & Michael Kieschnick
Edmond & Margaret J. Kavounas
Daniel Keller
Shelley Lazar
Terri Luchsinger
Gina Maya & Richard Capelouto
JaMel & Tom Perkins
Marguerite & Pradeep Rao
Shefali & Rajat Razdan Duggal
Roselyne Swig
Susan Swig
Ashley & Minott Wessinger
Individual Monitors
Phyllis & William H. Draper III
Linda McKenzie
Dennis Mehiel
Marjorie A. Swig
Saul Zaentz
Katie Zoglin
Individual Advocates
Sandra Barkdull
Linda & Jim DeMartini
Andrea Dew Steele
Peggy & Reid Dennis
Elizabeth Farnsworth
Van & Eddie Van Auken
Wendell G. Van Auken