Don Toshiaki Nakanishi

Background

Nakanishi, Don Toshiaki was born on August 14, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Education

Bachelor in Polit Science cum laude, Yale University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Harvard University, 1978.

Career

Professor, director Asian American Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles. Researcher Social Science Research Council of New York and the Japan Society for thePromotion of Science of Tokyo Joint-Project on American-Japanese Mutual Images, 1971-1973. Member Asian American task force for social studies guideline evaluation, California State Department Education, 1973.

Guest speaker Center for the Study of Ednl. Policy, Graduate School Education, Harvard University, 1974, Metropathways, Ethni-City School Desegregation Program, Boston, 1974. Researcher, co-project chair Hispanic Urban Center, Project School Desegregation, Los Angeles, 1974.

Achievements

• Don Toshiaki Nakanishi has been listed as a notable Asian American studies educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chair Yale University Alumni Schools Committee of Southern California, since 1978. Board directors Altamed and La Clinica Familiar Del Barrio of East Los Angeles, since 1982. Commissioner Bd.Transp.

Commissioners, City of Los Angeles, 1984-1990. Vice president Friends of the Little Tokyo Public Library., 1986-1988. Co-chair national scholars advising committee Japanese American National Museum, since 1987.

Member, Board of Governors Association of Yale Alumni, 1988-1991. Member executive county Mayor's Los Angeles's Best Aftersch. Program, City of Los Angeles, 1988-1990.

Member National Association for Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies (board directors 1976-1979), Association Asian American Studies (national president 1983-1985), National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education (Executive Board directors, vice president since 1983).

Connections

M. Marsha Hirano; 1 child, Thomas.

child:

Thomas Nakanishi