Rony Sagy, Esq. – Board Chair

Rony Sagy's public interest work has focused on the pursuit and advancement of education for children with disabilities. As a seasoned trial attorney and negotiator, she has represented children with disabilities in class actions, seeking the enforcement of their rights to free appropriate public education. This work included obtaining a consent decree in favor of hundreds of children in East Palo Alto in a first-of-its-kind California case.

Ms. Sagy is founder of Sagy Law associates LLP, a San Francisco law firm focused on complex litigation in the areas of corporate governance, business litigation and intellectual property. She has successfully litigated numerous cases before federal and state courts and at the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Roberta L. Robins, Esq. – Secretary of the Board

Roberta Robins is a long-time advocate on women’s issues, including women’s health, gender abuse and gender bias.  She is currently on the advisory board of the Women’s Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (WIPLA), an organization dedicated to providing a forum for interaction, communication and support among women intellectual property attorneys and promoting the honor and dignity of women in the intellectual property legal profession. In addition, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, California.

Ms. Robins is the managing partner of Robins&Pasternak LLP, a law firm specializing in intellectual property.

Amy Joseph, Esq. - Board Treasurer

Amy Joseph is a long-time refugee advocate. A San Francisco attorney specializing in immigration law for the past twenty-five years, she has represented hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees in legal proceedings. 

Currently in private law practice, Ms. Joseph has dedicated most of her career to the non-profit sector, having worked at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco and at the Bar Association of San Francisco. Ms. Joseph is active in numerous community projects in San Francisco.

Jonathan S. Huggett – Director & Founding Chair

A leading figure in nonprofit and social sector organizational management, Jonathan Huggett has dedicated much of his professional career to public service in the international arena. 

Among his many undertakings, Mr. Huggett counseled the Open Society Institute in New York, Khulisa in South Africa, and Choice Humanitarian, a global development NGO operating in Mexico. He was a Partner with Bridgespan in San Francisco and New York, where he advised a number of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations.  Mr. Huggett has served on the boards of numerous organizations, and was Board Chairman of the Stop AIDS Project and Zerapath.

Formerly a Partner with Bain & Company, Mr. Huggett has run three companies, including Pilkington Barnes Hind International of California, Bannock Consulting of London (UK), and PlanetOut of San Francisco. He has authored several articles including "Who Decides? Mapping Power and Decision Making in Nonprofits."

Philip Lawson Dayle, Esq. - Director

Mr. Philip Dayle has dedicated numerous years to international human rights advocacy spanning work in Switzerland, Jamaica, Britain, and the US. He was the Legal Officer at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Geneva, Switzerland International law and Protection Division from 2006 – 2008. In his position as key manager he designed, launched, and disseminated the standard setting principles entitled: “The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is the principal author of the ICJ legal practitioners’ guide on “Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law” (2009). Mr. Dayle was also a UNAIDS Consultant, HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights in the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica (2005 – 2006) and a fellow at the Inter American Commission on Human Rights in Washington DC between 2004-2005.

Eddie Bruce-Jones - Director

Eddie Bruce-Jones is a lecturer (assistant professor) of law at the University of London, Birkbeck College, and visiting lecturer at King’s College London, where he teaches EU Law and International Law. His principal research includes comparative anti-discrimination law, human rights, international refugee law, legal theory, prison policy and legal anthropology.  He is the resource coordinator for sexual orientation and gender identity claims for the Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network, part of the Fahamu Network for Social Justice.  Eddie has contributed to British, German and US refugee cases in various capacities.  He is a doctoral research affiliate of the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Vandana Pant - Director

Vandana has worked with a range of health and human services, educational and arts organizations in the US and India to advance development, communications and programs. She currently serves as the Director of Fund Development at The Health Trust, a Silicon Valley-based operating foundation advancing solutions for health equity and wellness. Prior to joining The Health Trust, Vandana was the Director of Development at Montalvo Arts Center where she led strategy on development efforts and offered key direction for organizational management and communications. She was a founding advisor to the Global Commons Foundation, an organization that supports creative practitioners in advancing alternatives for a democratic and sustainable global future and is currently working in an advisory capacity to support the development of the ECHO Foundation, a start up, non-profit organization working to create a sustainable shift in the regeneration and preservation of contemporary Iraqi culture and the arts. 

Vandana has a Master’s Degree in Communications from the Mass Communications Research Center in New Delhi and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Delhi University.

David Feltman - Director