"Multicultural Coexistence × My Career: Thinking About Future Work and Life with a Couple Involved in Supporting the Empowerment of Refugees and Foreign Nationals"
Event Date
Event Venue
May 21, 2025
"I want to solve a social issue."
"I want to work in multicultural coexistence, but I don't know how."
"I'm currently involved in supporting foreign nationals, but I wonder if I can continue after I start my career."
"I'm interested in the refugee issue, but what can I do?"
If you have these questions, why not explore a career that values both solving global social issues and finding your own unique way to contribute? Our guests are Nana Yamamoto and Shohei Hayashi, a couple who founded an NPO in Japan to support the empowerment of refugees while they were students. Today, they work as an NPO manager and a public consultant, respectively. Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, we welcome these two individuals who have long been involved in supporting the empowerment of refugees.
This event is a workshop for students interested in multicultural coexistence and social issues to think about their future careers from two perspectives: a global social issue perspective (Outside In) and a perspective of their own unique way of engaging with social issues (Inside Out).
We encourage everyone to participate, including students who want to make a career out of solving social issues like multicultural coexistence, faculty and staff who work with refugees, and anyone interested in the refugee issue!
Date, Time, and Venue
Wednesday, June 18, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
2nd Floor, Mita Information Plaza, Keio University
( Information Plaza | Office of Community and Regional Affairs, Keio University )
Eligibility
Keio students, faculty, and staff
How to Apply & Deadline
Please apply using the form below by Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
Participation Fee
Free
Capacity
20 people
Speaker Profiles
Facilitator: Nana Yamamoto, Co-representative of NPO Mobility for Humanity (application pending)
After spending her elementary, middle, and high school years in the US, Japan, and Germany, she enrolled at Waseda University. After studying abroad in Canada and spending a year in Shimokawa, Hokkaido, working on industrial promotion and expanding the "relationship population," she co-founded the NPO WELgee while still a student. She launched an employment project aimed at rebuilding refugees' lives and fostering co-creation with Japanese society through "employment," and later served as the head of overall business development and operations. She is a board member of the NPO Arrupe Refugee Center. She lives in Zushi City. While being gently bitten by her one-and-a-half-year-old son, she is also busy taking on new challenges.
Facilitator: Shohei Hayashi, Consultant, FAAS GPS (Government & Public Sector), Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
A graduate of Waseda University's School of International Liberal Studies. After serving as a founding member of the NPO WELgee, where he oversaw PR and corporate partnerships, he joined the global consulting firm EY. There, he works on public sector projects such as multicultural coexistence for local governments, policy research, and startup support. He received the Best Presentation Award from the Japan NPO Research Association.
Moderator: Yuna Sato, Steering Committee Member, Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Keio University; Project Researcher (PD), Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Contact
Yuna Sato