A hapa-yonsei descendant of Japanese Americans forced to leave the West Coast, Courtney is committed to ensuring the shameful history of the WWII incarceration is not forgotten and that its lessons are applied to the fight for social justice for all.

She is an active board member for Daruma No Gakko, a summer program designed for elementary and middle school students to learn about Japanese American heritage, and is on the Council of Friends of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Previously, Courtney was on the executive management team at a New York-based education technology company and worked in various for-profit and non-profit organizations. She has been designing and facilitating learning experiences for adults in a variety of professions for over a decade.

Her prior experience also includes the evaluation of emerging technologies for education, assisting educators in their use of technology, website design and development, and media production. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Harvard and her MA in Educational Communication and Technology from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education.