Robin S. Toma is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission. He was appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2000 after working five years at the Commission. He was honored to be a member of the Obama Administration's Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first ever Universal Periodic Review process of the U.S. human rights record in Geneva in November 2010. He was also invited to be on the US Delegation to the UN World Conference Against Racism (Durban, South Africa, 2001); Japanese American Leadership Delegation to Japan (2003), and the Climate of Trust Delegation to Russia (2005). He is co-author of the manual, “Day Laborer Hiring Sites: Constructive Approaches to Community Conflict,” and authored “A Primer on Managing Intergroup Conflict in a Multicultural Workplace.” Toma was lead attorney in seeking redress for over 2,200 Japanese Latin Americans who were forcibly brought to the U.S. and imprisoned by the US government during World War II. He was privileged to be a member of the Executive Session on Criminal Justice and Human Rights at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government from 2006-2008. Robin is on the board of directors of the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies, and served as President of the California Association of Human Rights Organizations. Previously, he was staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California for nearly 7 years, promoting human rights and building multi-ethnic coalitions to bring about institutional change. A native of Los Angeles, Toma received his Bachelor's Degree in sociology and Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Master's degree in Urban Planning and his Juris Doctorate from UCLA. He completed the three-year Kellogg National Fellowship Program studying how genuine democracies can be built in culturally diverse societies around the globe. Toma is of Okinawan and Japanese ancestry, and has lived two years in Barcelona, Spain and is fully fluent in Spanish.