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 the movement for freedom and justice in Burma in different capacities for ten years. Prior to joining the U.S. Campaign for Burma, 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 Director for the U.S. Campaign for Burma, she works to ensure international policymakers, including the US government, support the movement for freedom and democracy in Burma, provide support for human rights and humanitarian needs, as well as seek to bring justice and an end to crimes against humanity and impunity in Burma.

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.

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