LIVE Recording at The Broad Center's Forum 2025 with Akemi Kochiyama
Update: 2025-03-11
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In this episode, we are live and in-person at The Broad Center at Yale School of Management Forum 2025, with special guest, Akemi Kochiyama. Akemi is a scholar-activist, community builder, and Co-Director of the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project, whose mission is to carry on the work and legacy of her grandmother, Yuri Kochiyama.
- We soak in the moment of doing our first recording in front of a live audience and for a community that is near and dear to us (0:50 )
- Akemi shares her thoughts on Yuri's work, approach to solidarity and community building, and this idea about radical hospitality (4:50 )
- How we move from relationships to solidarity and the weight and expectations of having a famous last name, and how Bill and Yuri Kochiyama met (19:00 )
- We share our thoughts on how to navigate today and launching the Kochiyama Archives at Columbia University (39:30 )
Special shoutout to Feedspot and their 70 Best Asian American Podcasts list (we're #17!).
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