Kanoko Kamata from the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Sociology is among the panelists speaking at "Lessons in building civic leadership in Japan" on May 25.
In our first session of the Organizations Learn series, we’ll be joined by Kanoko Kamata, Akira Nakajima, Toor Kuzumaki, and Ryutaro Arakawa from Community Organizing Japan 特定非営利活動法人コミュニティ・オーガナイジング・ジャパン (COJ). They will share lessons from their journey seeding and growing campaigns in a society with a strong stigma against social activism, and how they strategically built pathways to move people to action.The event runs from 8:00 to 9:30 am ET---9:00 to 10:30 pm JST---and will have portions in Japanese with English translation. The cost is $10 for the general public, and registration by 11:59 on the 24th is required.