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The Authors
 John B. Roberts II's life experiences, from growing up in a dictatorship to playing a role
in bringing down the Soviet Union, convince him that consumer and economic pressure on China will win Tibet's freedom.
In Spain in the late 1960s, John lived under the Franco dictatorship. His fascination with underground politics,
mass movements, civil disobedience, and political revolt began in Madrid. Later, as a student at Oxford University in the
1970s, he returned often to study Spain's transition from one-party rule to today's vibrant democracy. In the 1980s,
while working in the Reagan White House, John became involved with emerging democracies throughout Latin America, including
the Iran-Contra affair to fund the Nicaraguan resistance. As a White House strategist charged with carrying out top presidential
initiatives, Roberts fought the pivotal political battles of the decade that concluded with the Reagan Administration's
triumph in the Cold War and the liberation of millions in Eastern Europe and Russia. For a decade after leaving the White
House, John specialized as a political consultant in emerging democracies from Argentina and Uruguay to Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
John is now a full-time writer and a consulting television producer and has covered every major domestic and international
political, economic, and social development of the past two decades. He has an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Fine Arts which he received from the University of California of Irvine at the age of
seventeen. He skis, backpacks, shoots competitively, scuba dives, and is an amateur artist.
 Elizabeth A. Roberts As a consequence of the research Elizabeth has done on the Chinese government's
history of repression in Tibet, she has launched her own protest campaign by refusing to buy any products made in China until
its human rights record improves. To the annoyance of storekeepers and online merchandisers, she always asks the country of
origin before buying a product. Unless it comes from a democratic country where workers are free to organize and proper health
and safety regulations are enforced, she won't make a purchase, no matter how appealing the item. Elizabeth's stand
on Tibet is the inspiration for a campaign to use consumer economic pressure to compel the Chinese regime to change.
Political activism comes naturally to Elizabeth. One of the first political campaigns she worked on was
Democrat Herb Kohl's 1988 run for the U.S. Senate. Today, Senator Kohl is featured on the International Campaign
for Tibet's web site as a valuable congressional supporter. After completing her degree in mass communications at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Elizabeth joined the staff of the respected Cook Political Report in Washington, D.C.,
where she interviewed campaign strategists, policymakers, and officeholders, giving her an insiders view of American politics.
At Very Special Arts, a non-profit dedicated to artists with disabilities, she worked with marine wildlife artist Wyland
on his East Coast Whaling Walls tour, and organized charity events involving celebrities like Wyntom Marsalis and Hiro Yamagata.
After a stint at Edelman Public Relations in Chicago, she began writing full time. She has been published in The Washington
Post, Oxford Today, and numerous other publications. She is the author of the book, Living with IBD & IBS: A Personal
Journey of Success, an expert blogger for the web site, HealthCentral and has been widely interviewed on radio.
Elizabeth enjoys skiing, backpacking, yoga, and competitive pistol shooting. She is a Reiki Master, moderator
for the web site www.ibsgroup.org, and an advocate for people living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Sudnrome, and Acoustic Neuromas.
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