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Laurie Shigekuni is the principal attorney at the law office of Laurie Shigekuni & Associates, a firm that practices estate planning, trust administration, probate, elder law and Medi-Cal long term care law. (See www.calestateplanning.com.) Her lifelong interest in Nikkei issues has been influenced by the activism of her father, Phillip Shigekuni, who was instrumental in the redress movement, and the community leadership of her aunt, Akemi Kikumura Yano, a founder of Discover Nikkei and the former executive director of the Japanese American National Museum. She is a guest writer for the “Senior Moments” column in The Rafu Shimpo and a former contributing columnist for the Hokubei Mainichi.
Updated May 2015