WISE Associate
Akiyo Higaki is currently a project manager to manage and plan events related to climate change in terms of the general insurance for advocating risk management.
She worked for an organization that provided workshops about the SDGs and global citizenship to students and mainly coordinated the programs for university students in Japan and South East Asia in her previous work.
In addition, she had experienced a local coordinator in Myanmar and India.
She studies international peace studies at the International University of Japan and had fieldwork to research the “refugee crisis” in Milan, Italy for her thesis of a Masters Degree. The summary of the thesis was printed in the external academic journal.
Learning sexuality education overseas and seeing that of education in Japan as a problem, she is working to create a program for “comprehensive sexuality education” in the JSIE’s program.