Board MemberHuman Rights Watch
Amy Rao is the Executive Vice President of The Schmidt Family Foundation and Founder & CEO of Integrated Archive Systems, a company she founded in 1994. Amy’s greatest passion is for the defending and protecting of human rights both domestically and internationally and currently serves on the Chair of the International board of Human Rights Watch. Amy also serves on the board of The Fund for Global Human Rights and on the board of the Schmidt Family Foundation. She is a founding board member of Re:Store Justice, an organization dedicated to supporting the formerly incarcerated. Amy lives with her husband Harry Plant in Palo Alto, California. Together they have five adult children scattered around the country.