Aung Din, Executive Director, Co-Founder
Aung Din served over four years behind bars as a political prisoner in Burma after organizing and helping to lead the country’s nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988 as Vice Chairperson of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), the largest national student organization and outlawed by the regime. The Amnesty International adopted him as a Prisoner of Conscience in 1989 and its chapters worldwide campaigned for his release. He co-founded the Washington, DC-based U.S. Campaign for Burma, an umbrella group of Burmese dissidents in exile and American activists, in 2003.

He is also country representative of the Thai-Burma border-based “Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma” (AAPP). He has been quoted in hundreds of media articles, testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Congressional Human Rights Caucus, and traveled on speaking tours across the United States. He received a Degree of Master of International Service from American University’s School of International Service in 2007, a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Singapore Institute of Management in 2000 and a Degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Rangoon Institute of Technology in 1994.

Jennifer Quigley, Advocacy Director
Jennifer Quigley has worked on women’s rights and the movement for freedom and justice in Burma in different capacities for seven years. From 2004-2006, she worked for the Women’s League of Burma and its member organizations on international advocacy and capacity building both while living in Thailand and in the U.S. Her work included advocating for and with women from Burma at the United Nations to both ensure the U.N. Security Council and other UN bodies pressure the military regime to end violence against women and bring peace and democracy to Burma and guarantee women from Burma are full participants in all stages and decision-making levels of the peace-building process. As the Advocacy Coordinator, she works to further Burma legislation in the U.S. Congress.

Michael Haack, Campaigns Coordinator
Michael works to rally grassroots support for USCB’s congressional, corporate, and international campaigns. He has worked to amplify the voice of Burma’s democracy movement in the United States since first hearing the stories of exiled Burmese living on the Thai-Burma border in 2003. As a student he helped spearhead the grassroots effort to convince May’s corporation to stop doing business with the Junta and helped organize delegations of students to the Thai-Burma border. In previous positions at Just Foreign Policy, The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and Oxfam America he worked to forward sound US foreign policy. He holds an M.A. in International Affairs from American University.

Patrick Cook-Deegan, Director of Strategic Partnerships
Patrick Cook-Deegan first got involved in Burma after bicycling 1,000 miles through the country in 2006. Following the trip, Cook-Deegan began volunteering with the USCB as the Northeast Regional Student Coordinator. During the Saffron Revolution, Patrick helped organize demonstrations at college campuses throughout the country. At Brown University, he spearheaded one of the largest political demonstrations in recent campus history, attended by 300 students and Fernando Cardoso, the former President of Brazil.

Over the past three year, Patrick has spoken at over 75 schools and conferences about the situation in Burma, including Duke, Yale, and the Clinton School of Public Service. A graduate of Brown University, Patrick was recently selected as a Fulbright scholar. He has been featured in the Washington Post, Providence Journal, and the Sunday Boston Globe and appeared on NPR and Radio Free Asia and ABC NewsNow.

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