Program Staff
Emilie PARRY
Seminars Program Coordinator, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi @EWCSeminars
Emilie Parry joins the East West Center after working for decades in policy, research and praxis across the fields of humanitarian and complex emergency programming, conflict transformation and sustainable development in conflict or war zones, climate change, new systems markets and resilient regenerative food systems across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the UK and Europe. Endogenous, local, Indigenous and networked worldviews and processes have guided, rooted and informed this work. Her doctoral research degree from the University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment focused on pan-Asian ecocultural and social engagement on climate change and the global ecological crisis. Emilie’s Master of Arts degree joined studies in Sustainable International Development and Conflict at Brandeis Heller School with Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law’s programs on conflict transformation, dispute negotiation and international Human Rights law.
Through Rootbridge Ecosystems, Stockholm Environment Institute, and with several pan-Asian endogenous, Indigenous and interfaith (as well as engaged Buddhist) networks, Emilie’s work has emphasized the value of facilitative spaces, mutuality and understanding achieved through dialogue, relationship-building and collaborative experiential learning. Emilie was raised in a multi-cultural adoptive family (with hanai values, even if this language wasn’t used), with the US Civil Rights movement ingrained in her earliest family culture. Perhaps a fish in a past lifetime, she is happiest in water, swimming; perhaps a tree in another, she prefers her bare feet digging into loamy soil.
Seminars Program Coordinator, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi @EWCSeminars
Emilie Parry joins the East West Center after working for decades in policy, research and praxis across the fields of humanitarian and complex emergency programming, conflict transformation and sustainable development in conflict or war zones, climate change, new systems markets and resilient regenerative food systems across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the UK and Europe. Endogenous, local, Indigenous and networked worldviews and processes have guided, rooted and informed this work. Her doctoral research degree from the University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment focused on pan-Asian ecocultural and social engagement on climate change and the global ecological crisis. Emilie’s Master of Arts degree joined studies in Sustainable International Development and Conflict at Brandeis Heller School with Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law’s programs on conflict transformation, dispute negotiation and international Human Rights law.
Through Rootbridge Ecosystems, Stockholm Environment Institute, and with several pan-Asian endogenous, Indigenous and interfaith (as well as engaged Buddhist) networks, Emilie’s work has emphasized the value of facilitative spaces, mutuality and understanding achieved through dialogue, relationship-building and collaborative experiential learning. Emilie was raised in a multi-cultural adoptive family (with hanai values, even if this language wasn’t used), with the US Civil Rights movement ingrained in her earliest family culture. Perhaps a fish in a past lifetime, she is happiest in water, swimming; perhaps a tree in another, she prefers her bare feet digging into loamy soil.
Carolyn EGUCHI
Supervisory Program Officer, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Carolyn Eguchi has been employed at the East-West Center since 1985. She has held various positions starting as a clerk typist, receptionist, fiscal clerk/assistant, program assistant/officer and is currently the Supervisory Program Officer in the Research Program. Carolyn is also a Deaconess and Sunday School Teacher at the Kailua Pentecostal Church. She enjoys spending time with family/friends and traveling.
Supervisory Program Officer, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Carolyn Eguchi has been employed at the East-West Center since 1985. She has held various positions starting as a clerk typist, receptionist, fiscal clerk/assistant, program assistant/officer and is currently the Supervisory Program Officer in the Research Program. Carolyn is also a Deaconess and Sunday School Teacher at the Kailua Pentecostal Church. She enjoys spending time with family/friends and traveling.
Takako LIM
Program Officer, Research Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Originally from Japan, Takako Lim earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Asian Religion from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. The majority of her career has been spent in the non-profit sector at organizations in Tokyo, New York and Hawaii focused on international relations, education and cultural exchange. Most recently, she served as Director of Educational Programs for the Japan-America Society of Hawaiʻi, where she gained years of experience in coordinating educational programs and volunteers. When not working, Takako enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.
Program Officer, Research Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Originally from Japan, Takako Lim earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Asian Religion from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. The majority of her career has been spent in the non-profit sector at organizations in Tokyo, New York and Hawaii focused on international relations, education and cultural exchange. Most recently, she served as Director of Educational Programs for the Japan-America Society of Hawaiʻi, where she gained years of experience in coordinating educational programs and volunteers. When not working, Takako enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.
Tasha KAKUDA
Seminars Program Assistant, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Tasha Kakuda is a Program Assistant at the East-West Center for Seminars & Journalism. She was born and raised in Hawaii, but has lived in Japan for study and work, which involved work as a cultural ambassador leading cultural seminars in Ehime prefecture, assisting in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic preparations in Tokyo, and teaching English in Shizuoka prefecture. She was a graduate assistant for the University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Asian Studies, where she earned her Master of Arts in Asian International Affairs. Tasha has focused most of her research on Japan, mainly gender equity in Japan's aging society and the local nikkei (Japanese American) community in Hawaii. She has also earned bachelor’s degrees in Japanese, Business Management, and International Business.
Seminars Program Assistant, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Tasha Kakuda is a Program Assistant at the East-West Center for Seminars & Journalism. She was born and raised in Hawaii, but has lived in Japan for study and work, which involved work as a cultural ambassador leading cultural seminars in Ehime prefecture, assisting in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic preparations in Tokyo, and teaching English in Shizuoka prefecture. She was a graduate assistant for the University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Asian Studies, where she earned her Master of Arts in Asian International Affairs. Tasha has focused most of her research on Japan, mainly gender equity in Japan's aging society and the local nikkei (Japanese American) community in Hawaii. She has also earned bachelor’s degrees in Japanese, Business Management, and International Business.