Akemi Kochiyama (she/her) is a scholar-activist, community builder, and fundraiser who currently serves as the Director of Advancement at Manhattan Country School. Her work is focused on multicultural community building and BIPOC solidarity and centered in intersectional feminism.
She is also Co-Director of the Yuri Kochiyama Archives Project and co-editor of Passing It On: A Memoirby Yuri Kochiyama. A graduate of Spelman College, Akemi is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.