Julia Shepardson
Julia Shepardson
Executive Director, ANMF
Portola Valley, California
JuliaShepardson
anmf.net
Board of Directors since 1999 [term expires 2010]
Executive Committee 2001-2002, 2008-present
Executive Director 2002-2006
Secretary 2001-2002
Projects Coordinator 2007-present
Julia Shepardson worked in Nepal vaccinating children for the Britain Nepal Medical Trust and lived and worked in a Tibetan refugee settlement. She was regional Director of the Tibetan US Resettlement Project resettling Tibetan Refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area. She owned and operated an import company and retail store. She was Executive Director of Survivors International, a San Francisco organization for the treatment and support of victims of torture from around the world. She assisted in the creation of the Iraqi Community Association in the Bay Area. She served as executive director of ANMF from 2002 to 2006. She worked as an international interpreter for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal during the Jana Andolan of 2006.