Desi takeover of Amnesty USA?

I was looking at my ballot for the 2009 election for members of the board of Amnesty International USA, and was surprised to see that 5 of the 12 candidates had South Asian names:

• Anil Raj (AIUSA's Myanmar country director)
• Rafia Zakaria (international feminist law background)
• Aniket Shah (current board member),
  
• Shankar Mukherji (MIT/Harvard student)
• Nikhil Aziz (ED of Grassroots International)

There's still a large enough disconnect between mainstream South Asian communities and mainstream social justice movements that stuff like this brings a smile to my face.