Kenji Kuramitsu (he/him/his)

Kenji Kuramitsu, Research Advisory Board

Kenji wears multiple hats—a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago, adjunct professor at McCormick Theological Seminary, and community care chaplain for The Obama Foundation’s fellowship program. “In these roles, I provide direct spiritual care to diverse populations in both medical and corporate settings,” he says. He is also much involved in his home church St. Paul and the Redeemer Episcopal Church. 

“I feel called to work with individuals and communities as they engage the ghosts of the past,” says Kenji. “I think lots about what has happened to the land and to its people, and believe strongly that building strong and accountable institutions can help us to come to terms with those things we have preferred not to remember. I seek to honor the legacy of my ancestors and to move towards what may frighten and discomfort us in the hope of healing.”