Who we are

Mutual Aid Myanmar is…

  • A collection of activists, academics, and policy makers working to support the democracy movement in Myanmar. We work closely with Civil Disobedience Movement organizers to help sustain the government and critical-industry workers who have put their livelihoods on the line for democracy.

  • Run entirely by volunteers. Many of our volunteers are in or have family in Myanmar and are not listed here for their safety. Our board of directors represents the organization publicly.

  • Unaffiliated with any political party or government institution in Myanmar. We support the Myanmar people’s right to choose their own leaders through free, pluralistic and genuinely representative democracy.

(Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for more details)

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Tun Myint

Tun Myint, Ph.D. is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Political Science & International Relations at Carleton College. He was a student leader of the 1988 democracy movement in Myanmar and is a widely respected expert on the politics and society of the country. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Team of the Federal Constitution Drafting Coordinating Committee. He is a founder and member of the editorial board of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, director of the Public Memory of Myanmar digital archive, and has contributed expert analysis on Burmese politics for media outlets, including PBS, Minnesota Public Radio, Radio Free Asia, CNN, and the BBC.

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James C. Scott

James Scott, Ph.D. is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, and is co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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Chayan Vaddhanaphuti

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Ph.D. is a human rights defender, an academic and the founding director of Chiang Mai University‘s Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development.

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