Tim is an American lawyer who has worked for nearly 30 years to establish human rights in the United States and across the planet. A graduate of the University of California Berkeley and University of California Davis School of Law, he first traveled to the developing world in the early 1970s, living in the village of Jamali Sani in rural Punjab and other points in India and Nepal. Inevitably from these experiences, Tim gained a first-hand empathy of the age-old contest for human dignity and integrity against the seemingly crushing odds of population, poverty, illiteracy and injustice.

In the later 1970s, Tim started his legal career as attorney for the newly formed Delphian Foundation, a not-for-profit educational organization headquartered in the northwestern United States. Utilizing the educational philosophy and methodology of L. Ron Hubbard, “Delphi” is dedicated to training and inspiring students as leaders toward lasting international peace and understanding. Thanks in part to Tim’s establishment work, the organization has grown to become Delphi Schools, Inc., now developing and overseeing the administration of private primary and secondary schools and of competency-based curriculum worldwide.

Tim moved his growing family to Southern California in the mid-1980s, where Tim served as general legal counsel to the Church of Scientology International for some eight years. During this time, through court precedent and legislation, Tim helped establish and confirm valuable protections for free religious practice and conscience in America that continue to benefit individuals from all faiths and walks of life.

During this time, Tim also helped establish several non-religious social service groups that continue to expand and bring improved conditions in important sectors, including Narconon International, a leading drug rehabilitation organization, and Applied Scholastics International, fighting illiteracy worldwide.

Since the mid-1980s, Tim has also advised and assisted the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, dedicated to the exposure and resolution of abuse and brutality committed by psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. Tim is currently a Commissioner of CCHR, Int.

Moving into a broad civil practice in the 1990s, Tim has been active in the progress for human rights in the workplace, both in the United States and abroad.

Tim has worked with Youth for Human Rights International President Mary Shuttleworth over this past year on several YHRI projects, including two trips back to India and another to Ghana to organize and produce international youth summits on human rights issues.

In volunteering for the YHRI executive director post this past summer, Tim aims to establish and expand the organization internationally. Tim observes:

“today, there is an underlying poverty much more insidious and destructive than any poverty of food, clothing and shelter. The base difficulties of our emerging world civilization are the poverties of hope, knowledge and courage. Youth for Human Rights International addresses these base poverties head-on, enabling our young people to know their human rights, to teach their fellows, and to become today’s and tomorrow’s advocates for peace and justice. I am happy to be able to help in this forward thrust.”