NAJC Redress 2008 registration form.pdfDates: Friday September 19, 2008
Location/Time: 1:15pm - 4:00pm
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Mary Kitagawa was born on Salt Spring Island. She graduated from the University of Toronto and Received Teacher's Certificate from UBC. She has since Taught in Secondary Schools in BC. Mary has participated in the publication of a resource Guide for Social Studies 11 teachers: Internment and Redress, The Japanese Canadian Experience. She has been a speaker at many lower mainland secondary schools sharing her family's history; before, during and after interment. Mary has participated in a CBC TV documentary; Paradise Lost, the Murakamis of Salt Spring Island and in a documentary made for TV; Kimiko Murakami, Triumph Over Internment. She also took part in the renaming of the Howard Green Building to the Douglas Jung Building on Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. and has spoken at many conferences. She is currently a member of the JCCA Human Rights Committee with husband Tosh. She has resided in Tsawwassen for 40 years. Mary is also a mother of a son and daughter and five grand children.
Lorna Williams is a member of the Lil'wat First Nation, Mount Currie BC. She is Assistant Professor and Programme Director of Aboriginal Teacher Education at the University of Victoria. She worked for the Ministry of Education as Director of the Aboriginal Education Enhancements Branch for three years where she directed research and policy development and implementation in all areas of education for Aboriginal students. Prior to this appointment, she worked as a First Nations Education Specialist with the Vancouver School Board. Lorna is a strong advocate committed to working with Aboriginal communities to increase achievement for Aboriginal learners, teach First Nations culture, heritage, traditions and history to all students. Lorna is a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee, her research is in the area of teacher development.
Lorna co-directed First Nations: The Circle Unbroken, a 23 program educational video series. She has written children's books, teachers' guides and developed Lil'wat Language curriculum to teach people to read and write this language, which was oral until 1973. Among Lorna's many accomplishments, she has organized and trained more than 2,000 people within and outside the public school system in applications based on Feuerstein's theory of structural cognitive modifiability and mediated learning. This work took her to Israel, the USA, South Africa and Europe and was the subject of a documentary The Mind of a Child that was awarded the Canada Award at the 1996 Gemini Awards.
Lorna was a group leader in the team that traveled to Malaysia in the inaugural year of Canada World Youth.
In recognition of Lorna's achievements she has been presented with Outstanding Teacher Award, Dedicated to Kids Award and in 1992, was invested into the Order of British Columbia.
Judy Hanazawa is a retired child and family services social worker who continues to provide part time consultation services to the Squamish Nation Ayas Men Men Child and Family Service Department. She received her Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work from the University of British Columbia. She has also been active in the Japanese Canadian Community in Greater Vancouver and on a national level over the last 18 years with focus in the area of post Redress human rights and community development programming. She is a longstanding member of the Human Rights Committees of the NAJC and the Greater Vancouver JCCA.
Kim Uyede-Kai is a member of the Human Rights Committee of National Association of Japanese Canadians. She is the General Council Minister, Racial Justice and Gender Justice with The United Church of Canada. Her work includes helping the United Church live into its anti-racism commitments and its Apologies to Aboriginal peoples and former students of residential schools, and to walk a different path of right relations with Aboriginal peoples in the United Church . She works closely with Aboriginal church communities and other communities marginalized by race and/or gender identity.
Terumi Kuwada is currently the Chairperson of the Community Development Portfolio of the Board of the National Association of Japanese Canadians. Terumi has been actively involved in the Japanese Canadian community for over 25 years, both locally in Winnipeg and nationally, as a member of the Human Rights Committee. She is a School Social Worker with the Winnipeg School Division and has been a volunteer in many not-for profit organizations, like, the United Way of Winnipeg, the Folks Arts Council of Winnipeg, the River East School Division, Project Peacemakers, etc.
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Mary Kitagawa was born on Salt Spring Island. She graduated from the University of Toronto and Received Teacher's Certificate from UBC. She has since Taught in Secondary Schools in BC. Mary has participated in the publication of a resource Guide for Social Studies 11 teachers: Internment and Redress, The Japanese Canadian Experience. She has been a speaker at many lower mainland secondary schools sharing her family's history; before, during and after interment. Mary has participated in a CBC TV documentary; Paradise Lost, the Murakamis of Salt Spring Island and in a documentary made for TV; Kimiko Murakami, Triumph Over Internment. She also took part in the renaming of the Howard Green Building to the Douglas Jung Building on Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. and has spoken at many conferences. She is currently a member of the JCCA Human Rights Committee with husband Tosh. She has resided in Tsawwassen for 40 years. Mary is also a mother of a son and daughter and five grand children.
Lorna Williams is a member of the Lil'wat First Nation, Mount Currie BC. She is Assistant Professor and Programme Director of Aboriginal Teacher Education at the University of Victoria. She worked for the Ministry of Education as Director of the Aboriginal Education Enhancements Branch for three years where she directed research and policy development and implementation in all areas of education for Aboriginal students. Prior to this appointment, she worked as a First Nations Education Specialist with the Vancouver School Board. Lorna is a strong advocate committed to working with Aboriginal communities to increase achievement for Aboriginal learners, teach First Nations culture, heritage, traditions and history to all students. Lorna is a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee, her research is in the area of teacher development.
Lorna co-directed First Nations: The Circle Unbroken, a 23 program educational video series. She has written children's books, teachers' guides and developed Lil'wat Language curriculum to teach people to read and write this language, which was oral until 1973. Among Lorna's many accomplishments, she has organized and trained more than 2,000 people within and outside the public school system in applications based on Feuerstein's theory of structural cognitive modifiability and mediated learning. This work took her to Israel, the USA, South Africa and Europe and was the subject of a documentary The Mind of a Child that was awarded the Canada Award at the 1996 Gemini Awards.
Lorna was a group leader in the team that traveled to Malaysia in the inaugural year of Canada World Youth.
In recognition of Lorna's achievements she has been presented with Outstanding Teacher Award, Dedicated to Kids Award and in 1992, was invested into the Order of British Columbia.
Judy Hanazawa is a retired child and family services social worker who continues to provide part time consultation services to the Squamish Nation Ayas Men Men Child and Family Service Department. She received her Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work from the University of British Columbia. She has also been active in the Japanese Canadian Community in Greater Vancouver and on a national level over the last 18 years with focus in the area of post Redress human rights and community development programming. She is a longstanding member of the Human Rights Committees of the NAJC and the Greater Vancouver JCCA.
Kim Uyede-Kai is a member of the Human Rights Committee of National Association of Japanese Canadians. She is the General Council Minister, Racial Justice and Gender Justice with The United Church of Canada. Her work includes helping the United Church live into its anti-racism commitments and its Apologies to Aboriginal peoples and former students of residential schools, and to walk a different path of right relations with Aboriginal peoples in the United Church . She works closely with Aboriginal church communities and other communities marginalized by race and/or gender identity.
Terumi Kuwada is currently the Chairperson of the Community Development Portfolio of the Board of the National Association of Japanese Canadians. Terumi has been actively involved in the Japanese Canadian community for over 25 years, both locally in Winnipeg and nationally, as a member of the Human Rights Committee. She is a School Social Worker with the Winnipeg School Division and has been a volunteer in many not-for profit organizations, like, the United Way of Winnipeg, the Folks Arts Council of Winnipeg, the River East School Division, Project Peacemakers, etc.
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