Professor Dr. Izumi Sakamoto

Biography

Izumi Sakamoto is currently an Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and an Academic Fellow with the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research. She is a Core Faculty Member at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs. As a Fulbright Scholar, she brings interdisciplinary perspectives to social work, social psychology, and cultural psychology, and works transnationally. Sakamoto's research focuses on immigration, anti-oppressive practice, gender, empowerment, critical consciousness, community organizing, and arts, drawing from over 20 years of methodological expertise in qualitative and community-based arts-informed research methodologies. She has developed the Model of Cultural Negotiation for immigrant integration and conducted ethnographic media analysis on the concept of "Canadian experience". Sakamoto operates four research projects as Principal Investigator, in addition to serving as Co-Investigator on projects related to anti-Asian racism in the COVID-19 era and the discourse of neurodiversity.

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