Internationally known artist Tabra Tunoa is a leader in the Contemporary Ethnic style of Gypsy Jewelry.
As the demand for her jewelry outgrew her capacity to produce it, she began to train young refugees from Asia and Central America to help in her workshop just north of San Francisco. Many of her first employees are with her today and run the shop while Tabra travels to remote, exotic regions of the Third World. There she finds her source of inspiration among the colorful women whose courage, strength and love of beauty, in the face of overwhelming difficulties, still continue to fascinate her.
Tabra gives a percentage of all her jewelry sales to Nari Uddug Kendra, a women's organization in Bangladesh and the Isabel Allende Foundation. Each year, Tabra travels to Bangladesh to work with the women there to promote human rights for women and the education of young Bangladeshi women. Designing jewelry and helping women of the Third World will be her passions forever.