Come join us for a conversation with Kimberly Emerson, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch (lawyer, civic leader, human rights advocate).

Lunch will be provided (donations accepted).  Please register and indicate your choice of meal (make a selection vegetarian or non-vegetarian). 

Kimberly Marteau Emerson is a lawyer, civic leader, and human rights advocate. In May 2023, she was appointed by President Biden to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. From 2013-2017, she lived in Berlin with her husband, US Ambassador to Germany John B. Emerson (ret.) during President Obama's second term where she worked with the US Embassy. Kimberly also worked in the Clinton Administration as a senior political appointee and spokesperson for the U.S. Information Agency, now part of the State Department.

She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of Bard College Berlin, on the Board of Trustees of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch as a member of the Advisory Boards of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and The Thomas Mann House, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She is a founding member of the Transatlantic Advisory Board of United Way in Germany, and divides her time between LA and Berlin.

Co-Sponsored by Soka University's Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights, The United Nations Association of Orange County and The World Affairs Council of Orange County. 

Open to the public and members of the Soka community with registration. 

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