His most recent accomplishments include successfully organizing and directing a broad-based coalition to secure passage of legislation in 1997 and 1998 that provides resident status for hundreds of thousands of Central American and Haitian refugees respectively. Since 1989, Mr. Swartz has served as primary advisor to the China democracy movement, organizing broad-based coalitions to link China NIFN to human rights improvements and to otherwise promote democratic reforms. He has served as the Vice-President and Senior Counsel for the China Strategic Institute, a think tank founded by key leaders of the China democracy movement. Mr. Swartz also serves as the Washington counsel for the National Coalition for Haitian Rights, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Forum and the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, the major umbrella group for Vietnamese and other Indo-Chinese refugees in the United States.

In 1990, Mr. Swartz started a small public policy firm which represents a range of financial, ethnic, corporate, non-profit and human rights groups on national and international issues.