Thomas Nazario

Nazario has worked around the world documenting human rights violations involving women and children for the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, and for many nongovernmental agencies. In 2014 he published a book addressing issues of global poverty, Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor.

In 2014 Nazario partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer to produce the book, Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor, detailing the lives of women, children, and families around the world living in extreme poverty. While Jim Colton, editor of zPhotoJournal, calls it, "one of the most important books published this century," the narratives and imagery have been connected to debate about the effectiveness of philanthropy in eradicating poverty

Nazario, Thomas A. & Byer, Renée C. (2014). Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor. Quantuck Lane Press. ISBN 978-1593720568

He founded an international philanthropic organization, The Forgotten International, in 2007., whose mission is to develop programs that alleviate poverty and suffering associated with poverty in both the United States and worldwide, in particular, that experienced by women and children. Since its inception, the foundation has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund programs in nine countries and continues to expand.

In 1999, Nazario traveled to Dharamshala, India as part of a team of attorneys and psychologists sent by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to interview Tibetan children who escaped Tibet and went to India as refugees. The report, A Generation in Peril, The Lives of Tibetan Children under Chinese Rule, documented human rights abuses by the Chinese government against Tibetan children and their families as well as the children's lives after arriving in India. The report was presented to the UN on June 6, 2005.

As a result of his work on this report, Mr. Nazario has returned to India on more than eight occasions, and has brought students from his university to work with refugee children, developed a scholarship program for Tibetan students, and coordinated a visit by the Dalai Lama to the University of San Francisco in September 2003. The Dalai Lama came to USF specifically to receive an Honorary Doctoral Degree and to thank the university for the work Mr. Nazario has spearheaded on the university’s behalf. Since then, Mr. Nazario has continued to work with the Dalai Lama on various visits to the United States as well as projects related to the care and protection of the Tibetan people.

In acknowledgment of his work, Mr. Nazario was named the 1997 Harvard Educator of the Year by the Harvard Club of San Francisco, and in 1998 received the Sarlo prize from the University of San Francisco, the university’s most prestigious award given annually to the professor who has exhibited excellence in teaching and in his or her commitment to students and the community.

Nazario, Thomas A. & Scarpello, Christine (1997). California Supplement to Street Law: a Course in Practical Law, 5th ed. West Pub. Co.

Nazario, Thomas A., Kids and the Law: an A-to-Z Guide for Parents (1996). [San Francisco, Calif.]: State Bar of California ("A community service of the State Bar of California." Developed and distributed with the support of the California Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students, Inc.

Nazario, Thomas A. & Jannke, Samantha, ed. (1995). Teenage Pregnancy, Single Parents and the Law: a Legal Guide for Those Who Work with California'sYouth: the Answers to Questions Most Often Asked. Sacramento, CA:California Alliance Concerned with School Age Parents.

Nazario, Thomas A., ed. (1995). A Curriculum and Program Guide for Teens on Law. The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, San Francisco, CA.

Nazario, Thomas A., "When Your Ex Won't Pay." Volume 66, Issue 3, Parents Magazine, 63 (1991)

Nazario, Thomas A., O'Brien, Edward L., & Arbetman, Lee (1990). Street Law: a Course in Practical Law, 4th ed. St. Paul: West-Pub. Co. (with California state supplement prepared by Thomas A. Nazario.)

Nazario, Thomas A. with Blum, Pamela, Hirschfeld, Steven & Miljanich, Patricia Henderson (1988). In Defense of Children: Understanding the Rights, Needs, and Interests of the Child: a Resource for Parents and Professionals. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Nazario, Thomas A., "What teachers, parents, and kids should know about drinking and drugs. " (Youth at Risk) 12 Update on Law-Related Education 4 (1988)

Nazario, Thomas A., "What do we know about delinquency?" 12 Update on Law-Related Education 8 (1988)

Nazario, Thomas A., O'Brien, Edward L., McMahon, Edward & Arbetman, Lee (1987). Street Law: a Course in Practical Law, 3rd ed. St. Paul: West Pub. Co. (with California state supplement prepared by Thomas A. Nazario.

Nazario, Thomas A., O'Brien, Edward L., & Arbetman, Lee (1984). Street Law: a Course in Practical Law, 2nd ed. St. Paul: West Pub. Co. ("A publication of the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law." "California state supplement prepared by Thomas A. Nazario.")

Nazario, Thomas A., Ackerley, Sally, Benford, Elizabeth & C. White, ed., "Law Related Externships for High School Students." 192 Building Bridges to the Law 203, American Bar Association (1981)

Thomas Albert Nazario (born May 15, 1949) is an American lawyer, author and international children's rights advocate. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, as well as Founder and President of the San Francisco-based The Forgotten International, and previously Program Director of USF's Tibetan Children Education Project. He has been an inspector for the United Nations and a consultant for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He has authored four books on children's rights, including In Defense of Children

Born in 1949, Nazario grew up in Spanish Harlem in New York City. He earned his B.A. from City University of New York and M.A. from New York University. After graduating from the University of San Francisco with his J.D. he served as Assistant Deputy Public Defender in San Francisco, and worked as a children's rights advocate. He received a fellowship from the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial to start the Bay Area Street Law Project. He later joined the staff of the University of San Francisco School of Law as a law professor where his focus has been Children's Rights, Education Law, and Family Law.