Bios of Board of Directors and Volunteer Staff

Tamdin with school kids

Tamdin Wangdu is a native Tibetan social entrepreneur and the founder of the Tibetan Village Project, a nonprofit, non-political organization that promotes sustainable development and cultural preservation in Tibet.  Tamdin received B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and worked as IT Consultant for several years prior becoming the executive director of TVP. Tamdin was born in Tibet and now travels between his adopted home in Colorado and native Tibet. Tamdin’s interest includes adventure traveling and photographing, socio-economic of contemporary Tibet, Tibetan calligraphy, and meditation and yoga.

Don Cullen lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has a strong business background, mainly in the food industry throughout Australia and New Zealand. He has been actively involved in Tibetan culture for the past 44 years. He has travelled to Tibet a number of times over the past decade and during that time, has developed a great empathy for the Tibetan people who are trying to maintain their religion, culture and quality of life. Don is also the contact point for "Conscious Journeys" in Australasia and Europe, he is one of the leaders that take groups in to Tibet to work on Tibetan Village Projects. Don is the TVP representative for Australia / New Zealand and Europe and serve on TVP board. Click here to see the event calendar of TVP in Australia.

Sunny Klaber: Initiates and carries out innovative projects that generate interest and support for TVP. Sunny's key contributions include (1) helping to create the "Tibetan Village Project Conscious Journeys", an annual journey that invites volunteers to visit and offer support at key TVP project sites in Central Tibet (2) providing the vision and gathering the resources to produce a documentary film about TVP and (3) creating a set of gree ting cards that display beautiful Tibetan calligraphy. Sunny currenly serves on TVP board.