Sharon K. Hom is executive director of Human Rights in China (HRIC), a New York- and Hong Kong-based organization, where she leads its international advocacy and strategic policy engagement with NGOs, governments and multi-stakeholder initiatives. Hom has testified and presented extensively on a variety of human rights issues before key European, U.S. and international policymakers, including the European Parliament, the U.S. Congress and the UN Human Rights Council.  She has also presented to the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, the Council of Foreign Relations and the US Naval Academy Center for Regional Studies. As a law professor Hom has taught judges, lawyers and law teachers at eight law schools in China and currently teaches “Human Rights, Civil Society and the Internet in China” at the NYU School of Law. Hom appears as a commentator in broadcast programs worldwide and is quoted in major print media frequently. In 2007, she was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the “50 Women to Watch.”

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