• Keynote speaker: Karen Tei Yamashita, Professor of Literature at UCSC and award winning author.
  
  

  Karen Tei Yamashita, Professor of Literature and co-director of the Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz, teaches creative writing and Asian American literature. Yamashita has been an active Kresge fellow and student supporter, and received the Chancellor's Award for Diversity at UCSC in 2009. Her acclaimed fifth novel, I Hotel, was a 2010 National Book Award Finalist and winner of the 2011 California Book Award in fiction.  Her previous award-winning novels, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil Maruand Circle K Cycles, are based on her sojourns in Brazil and Japan.   Her topic will be: Roots/Routes:  Japanese-Brazilian Migrations

• Undergraduate & graduate student scholarships awardees
  The recipients of the 2012 JAWAUCB scholarships are:
  • Emily Ikuta - College of Letters and Science, Political Science
  • Sierra Senzaki -  College of Letters and Science, English
  • Rosa Yoshitsugu -  College of Letters and Science, Undeclared
  • Sarah Koehler - Graduate School, Mechanical Engineering
  Center for Race and Gender awardee:
  • Amy Fujiwara Shen - Graduate School, Ethnic Studies

• Outstanding Alumna of the Year:
  Sara Ishikawa (UCB 1963), Professor Emerita of Architecture, UC Berkeley
  
  

  Sara Ishikawa, our 2012 Alumna of the Year, taught in the Dept. of Architecture from 1969 to 1994, where she also served as Associate Dean. Her outstanding career spans architecture, academia, public service and contributions to architectural theory.  Her interest as an architect was specializing in people-space relationships at urban, as well as smaller scales, with a particular interest in affordable and low income housing and community facilities.She is coauthor of the seminal A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction that identifies qualities of “wholeness of place” as genuine determinants of people based values.

• Election will be held on candidates for board of directors and officers.
  (Note: We invite volunteers to serve on the board. CAA membership required. About five daytime meetings are held annually at a convenient central location. Board members attend from several northern California communities.)

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