BIO

My name is Kenji Kuramitsu and I currently work in social services in my family's hometown of Chicago.

 

Licensed as a clinical social worker in Illinois, I hold graduate degrees from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration (AM) and McCormick Theological Seminary (M.Div), where I have served as an Adjunct Professor in Ministry and Pastoral Care. My Bachelor studies were in Social Work and Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am a Fellow with the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and am now completing their certification program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

 

In my clinical and administrative work, I strive to bring curiosity, humor, and warmth, calling upon past experiences in health care chaplaincy and antiracism training and organizing. I have experience in nonprofit board service working with organizations in faith-based, LGBTQ, and Japanese American historical memory work.

 

I am interested in continuing to deepen opportunities for clinical practice as well as thoughtful consulting with progressive institutions working to further reparative and antiracist values.

 

Full recent employment information can be found at my LinkedIn page.