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Join us for the 2025 Gordon Hirabayashi Lecture, presented by distinguished guest speaker, Dr. Karen Korematsu, founder and president of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute.

Dr. Korematsu is the daughter of the late civil rights icon Fred Korematsu. The Fred T. Korematsu Institute (KI) is a national education advocacy organization committed to advancing racial equity, social justice and human rights for all. Her talk is titled Coram Nobis: The warning we need now?

As a national public speaker and educator, she advocates for civil liberties, social justice, civics, and ethnic studies education. She has presented to K-12 schools, colleges, universities, law schools, national and state conferences, including the National Judicial College, Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and the South Carolina State Judicial Conference. She is a member of National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and an Honored Member of the Council of State Social Studies Specialists. In 2015, Karen was inducted as the first non-lawyer member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She served on the board of directors of Advancing Justice-AAJC. She serves on the National Advisory Board of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.

The Gordon Hirabayashi Lecture celebrates the legacy of former University of Alberta Sociology professor Dr. Gordon Hirabayashi whose work centred on human rights and ethnic minorities in Canada.

This event is organized by the University of Lethbridge and University of Alberta, in collaboration with the Nikkei Cultural Society of Lethbridge and Area, the Edmonton Japanese Community Association and the National Association of Japanese Canadians. 

Light refreshments will be served following the lecture. All are welcome.