Dechen Wangdu
- Producer
Dechen Wangdu is an American-raised
Tibetan. She has been a prominent activist for Tibet, struggling in
concert with her Beastie Boys husband,
Adam Yauch, to help make the Tibetan cause
known all over the world. Dechen and
Robert Thurman are featured as
important scholars in the documentary film,
Free Tibet (1998), which was produced
by Adam Yauch. Dechen and Adam were married
in May of 1998, and they have together produced a daughter named Tenzin
Losel Yauch.