Author of Lessons from Jojo: Organizing Side-by-Side with Power, Heart, and Grace
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Dina Shek is a licensed attorney and the Legal Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Hawaiʻi, which she co-founded in 2008 with Dr. Chris Derauf at Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services. A Faculty Specialist and proud graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law (UH Mānoa), she is the daughter and granddaughter of Japanese American wartime incarceration (Rohwer and Tule Lake camps) and owes a great debt to the activists and attorneys of the Japanese American Redress Movement.
Value of Hawaiʻi: Hulihia, The Turning 