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Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd
FREDRICK D. KAKINAMI CLOYD is an independent writer, scholar, artist/performer, and activist whose work focuses on cultural histories and as it relates to social justice. His Black-American and Japanese heritages are fuel for his book and project on the historical Black Pacific. Cloyd has been published in such publications as Kartika Review, Oakland Word, The Pacific Reader, Nikkei Heritage, as well as featured on various radio and television programs and interviews. He received his Masters in a former incarnation of a postcolonial social cultural anthropology program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His studies took him to Europe and Turkey with a focus on advocacy and community-building with social justice as goal.
In 2012, Cloyd was one of the artists featured in the Japanese National Historical Society (NJAHS) Exhibit celebrating the opening of a new Japanese-American museum in San Francisco entitled “Generation Nexus: Peace in the Post-War Era.” He currently does presentations, consults and facilitates workshops related to Black Pacific issues, anti-oppression perspectives on identity and social change, as well as writing for the Hapa Project based at the University of Southern California, and increasingly focused on developing “Dream of the Water Children” into a multi-faceted, multimedia project honoring inter-generational knowledge, memory, healing, and social. www.dreamwaterchild.com.
