Tina Ramirez serves as President and Executive Director of Hardwired and brings 20 years of experience as a teacher, foreign policy expert, and authority on international human rights law and religious freedom. Previously, she was a policy advisor for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a foreign policy advisor to the U.S. Congress—where she founded the bipartisan International Religious Freedom Caucus—and former Director of Government Relations and International Programs at Becket Law.

Tina has published extensively and is the author of Iraq: Hope in the Midst of Darkness (2017), as well as a contributing author and editor of Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and Documents (2010 and 2017). She holds a certificate from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, a Master’s degree in Education from Vanguard University, and a Master’s degree in International Human Rights from the University of Essex, UK.