President and Executive Director, Hardwired Global

Tina Ramirez serves as the president and executive director of Hardwired Global. Previously, she served as a policy advisor for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom; a foreign policy advisor for the US Congress, where she founded the bipartisan International Religious Freedom Caucus; and a director of Government Relations and International Programs at Becket Law. Ms. Ramirez has published extensively and is the author of Iraq: Hope in the Midst of Darkness (2017), a contributing author and editor of Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and Documents (2010 and 2017), and author and editor of Human Rights: Great Events from History (2019). She holds a certificate from the International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France; an MA in education from Vanguard University; and an MA in international human rights from the University of Essex, UK. Ms. Ramirez has spoken before the United Nations and the African Union and testified before the US Congress. In 2012 she was awarded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Award for her congressional work defending the Ahmadiyya Muslim community worldwide. She previously served as vice president and secretary of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief in New York and is a former board member for the Valentine First Freedom Center in Richmond, Virginia.