SERVICE & RESEARCH RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024                           Produce NCTA Critical Studies Short Course for a K12 educator workshop: “East Asian settler colonial studies and critical Indigenous heritage studies”

2023                           Journal article reviewer: Feminist Anthropology, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

2022                           Editorial Board, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), 3 years appointment

2022                           Conference manager for EDUtech Asia and EDUtech Japan (Terrapinn global events)

2021                           Workshop facilitator & UKRI grant proposal team: “The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental and Heritage Conservation” University of Leicester. 

2021                           Translator: Ainu Association of Hokkaido, “Anticipating the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics & Paralympics” 

2019 – 2020             Coordinator: Humanities and Social Science Colloquium (HSSC), NYU Shanghai

2019                           Organizer: Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai in NYU Shanghai. Intangible cultural heritage workshop and media collaboration with students. https://ainusapporoupopoho.wixsite.com/sapporoupopohozonkai

2018                           Organizer and moderator: Screening of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Asako I & II” and discussion with director (NYU Shanghai)

2016 – 2023             Co-founder and Coordinator: Early Career Researchers Network, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)

2015 – 2019             Webmaster: “Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai” https://sapporoupopohozonkai.wordpress.com

2015 – 2016             Graduate Student Representative for workshops and seminars: Department of East Asian Studies, NYU

2014 – present         Member: “Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai” (Sapporo Upopo Preservation Society), Official Ainu traditional performance group, National and UNESCO Intangible Heritage

2014 – 2015             Organizing Committee, “Ainu and Indigenous Peoples Film Festival,” (Den’ei-sha, Ainu Senjūminzoku Eiga-sai)

2013 – 2018             Member of Native American and Indigenous Student Group (NAISG)

2009 – 2012             Translator: JTB (Japan Travel Bureau) Hokkaido, Business Development Office

2008                           Interpreter and Translator: Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir 

2008                           Interpreter: Hawaii’s Indigenous Peoples Recovery of Rights and Ecotourism through Traditional Hula in Hokkaido University