Hawaiʻi Tokai welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Misao Keith as its new Dean of Instruction. Dr. Keith holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, she grew up bilingual in English and Japanese. She worked as a correspondent in Hawaiʻi for NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation for over 25 years. She’s also worked in over 30 cities in the U.S. and Japan as a professional interpreter for trials and depositions for product liability cases, as well as for international conferences, business negotiations, press conferences, and media interviews. She has been invited to present workshops and papers in Japan, Singapore, the U.S., South Africa, and Kenya. Fortunately, she loves to travel! After teaching at the Centre for Transcultural Studies in Singapore from 2012-2015 alongside diverse international faculty members, her current interests are multiculturalism and cross cultural competency.
E komo mai / Yokoso / Welcome, Dr. Keith!