October 8, 2021
Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, former ISSI Graduate Fellow and now a faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, has been selected by the Cal Alumni Association Board of Directors and the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees to receive the 2021 Spirit of 1868 Volunteer Award, which celebrates her generosity and dedication to serving the Berkeley community. Tsuchitani is also a co-recipient of a 2021 grant from the Berkeley Collegium Grant Program which will be used to co-design a new course entitled, “Imagining and creating a racially just future: The role of educational research by, for, and with Asian Americans.”