Noah Kurima

Noah Kurima is a founding member of the San Diego JACL Junior Board and has been active in the chapter since he was in elementary school, attending and volunteering at numerous community picnics and at the annual "Never Forget" gala.

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Noah is a 2021 Reischauer Scholar in Stanford University's SPICE program (Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education) and is a published writer in the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has studied and volunteered at Japanese school on Saturdays since first grade. He is fifth generation Japanese American on his father's side and fourth generation Korean Japanese (zainichi) on his mother's side.  Noah graduated from Sage Creek High School in Carlsbad and is now a student at Waseda University (早稲田大学) in Tokyo, Japan.