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Vince M. Okada, PhD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor and BSW Chair
Hawaiʻi Pacific University
Honolulu, HI, United States

Dr. Vince Okada is deeply committed to community development with a focus on diversity, well-being, and social justice for Japan, Hawaiʻi, and the Asia-Pacific region. He shares these principle missions along with the goal of expanding youth leadership, international education, and the field of indigenous knowledge including identity formation and resurgence and sustainable community development.

Dr. Okada has been involved with the Polynesian Voyaging Society since Hōkūleʻa visited Japan in 2007. He also serves as a council leader of the U.S.–Japan Council and is an editorial advisor of the Journal of Indigenous Social Development (https://ucalgary.ca/journals/indigenous-social-development). His interdisciplinary research focuses on Japan’s indigenous people, the Ainu, their welfare, and related policy issues. His article, “The Plight of Ainu, Indigenous People of Japan” was published in the Journal of Indigenous Social Development. (https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/21976/v1i1_02okada.pdf).

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