Serves as the Founder and President of Hardwired Global and brings to the organization 25 years of experience as a teacher, foreign policy expert and authority on international human rights law and religious freedom. Previously, she served as a policy advisor for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a foreign policy advisor for 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) and a contributing author and editor of Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and Documents (2010 and 2017) and author/editor of Human Rights: Great Events From History (2019). She holds a certificate from the International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, a MA in Education from Vanguard University, and a MA in International Human Rights from the University of Essex, UK.She has worked in more than 30 countries, testified before the U.S. Congress and United Nations, and is a contributing author of several publications, including the Journal of Social Science Education. In 2012, she was awarded the Second Annual Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Award for her congressional work defending their community worldwide. Her unique expertise in education, which was recently featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS series The Good Road, has been shown to help communities plagued by violence and extremism toward religious and ethnic minorities to embrace a culture of pluralism and respect for the human rights of others.