Name: Tenzin Seldon
Job Title: Research Associate
Skills: Research
Location: Dharamsala, India
Name: Tenzin Seldon
Tenzin Seldon is the first Tibetan to be awarded the Truman scholarship. She is also the recipient of fellowships such as the Haas Summer Fellowship to incorporate critical thinking and public speaking into a refugee school in India and the Stanford Major Grant to pursue research in honors thesis. Seldon has graduated with Phi Beta Kappa, high academic distinction in the Department of Comparative Studies with a focus in education and global justice at Stanford University.
Tenzin Seldon is currently serving as an Executive and Co-Founder of Climate Justice League, working alongside top youth leaders and former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson as the foremost group of prominent women leaders concerned with climate issues. Seldon is a co-producer of the documentary, ‘State of Control,’ which was premiered in the United Nations Film Festival. She was recruited in the Department of Information and International Relations, CTA, as a Research Associate.
She has also worked as Coordinator to President Obama’s Interfaith Challenge to foster and emphasize interfaith understanding among peers as well as a Fellow at CCARE (The Center for Compassion and Altruism, Research and Education), initially funded and supported by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, to promote the pedagogy and scientific study of compassion.
