Sharon Hom is Executive Director of Human Rights In China and Professor of Law Emerita at the City University of New York School of Law. She has over 14 years of experience in USA-China legal exchanges and training programs. Sharon was a Fulbright Scholar in the People's Republic of China and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. She also participated as an independent expert in the WSIS International Symposium on the Information Society and Human Dignity. As a delegate of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, Sharon also presented at several parallel NGO events at the WSIS, and participated in the EU-China Human Rights Seminar in Venice, Italy. She served on the USA-China Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China, and sits on the boards of Human Rights Watch/Asia, and on the Committees on Asian Affairs and International Human Rights of the Bar Association of the City of New York.