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Students Advocating for Gender Equality (SAGE) Clubs in Tokyo and Punahou are collaborating for the first time to sponsor our first annual Spring Speaker Series: "Women in Asia: Challenges and Resilience."
Throughout April and May of 2022, participants of the speaker series will engage with the most pressing social, political, and economic issues facing women in Asia; the aim of the series is to educate ourselves and our broader communities on issues of gender inequality in Asia. We are honored to announce Ms. Kathy Matsui, Ms. Yumiko Murakami, Ms. Miwa Seki, Ms. Kimiko Hirata, and Ms. Amy Stanley as our speakers.
Through this series, we also aim to raise money for the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh; while there is no fee, we highly encourage making a donation to AUW.
[All speakers will be hosted via Zoom.]
Women in Economics
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Japan: April 9 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Hawaii: April 8 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Kathy Matsui
Kathy Matsui is the former Vice-Chair of Goldman Sachs Japan. Her ground-breaking “Womenomics” research spurred former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to promote gender diversity as part of Japan’s growth strategy. She earned an MA from Johns Hopkins and a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.
Yumiko Murakami
Yumiko Murakami is the former head of OECD Tokyo. Prior to OECD, she spent 20 years in finance as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. Yumiko has an MBA from Harvard University, MA from Stanford University, and a BA from Sophia University.
Miwa Seki
Miwa Seki has 20 years of experience in the financial industry, starting at Morgan Stanley and later moving to Clay Finlay. She is also a prolific translator, having translated over 50 business publications, one of which became the Best Business Book of the Year in 2021 in Japan. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Keio University in Law and Literature.
Women and Climate
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Japan: April 18 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Hawaii: April 17 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Kimiko Hirata
Kimiko Hirata received the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize for her grassroots efforts, including her successful campaign to close coal power plants and her ability to gain support from shareholders for Japan’s first-ever climate shareholder resolutions targeting Japanese banks. In 2022, she has founded Climate Integrate to continue her work to protect the environment. She received a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Waseda University.
[CANCELLED] Women in Afghanistan
Japan: May 14 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Hawaii: May 13 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Nilab Ibrahimy
Nilab Ibrahimy is an Afghan woman who successfully graduated from AUW in 2020, being the first in her family to attend university. Nilab worked as a business development and marketing analyst until August 2021 when she evacuated from Afghanistan with 148 AUW Afghan students. She is currently enrolled at Brown University in the U.S.
Nilab says the two things she will value from her AUW experience are the diversity and willingness to accept and respect anybody in the community.
Comfort Women: Controversies and Truth
Japan: May 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Hawaii: May 15 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Amy Stanley
Amy Stanley is currently a professor of history at Northwestern University where she specializes in early modern Japan with interests in women’s/gender history and global history. Her book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City, was published in 2020 and has received a number of awards including the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, 2021 Finalist for The Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and shortlisted for the Baillie-Gifford prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for non-fiction. Most recently, Professor Stanley, with four other historians, has been enveloped in a contentious, often hostile public discussion on comfort women.
