Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
Fluent in Japanese, Pamela lived in Kyoto and Tokyo for seventeen years. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her dissertation was awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), and the academic book that resulted is Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma. Pamela has worked offsite as an expert consultant on Japan-related projects for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and has taught in the University of Hawaiʻi System. She is on the Social Studies faculty at Punahou School in Honolulu, where she coordinates the Davis Democracy Initiative.