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Stewart Kwoh (born September 16, 1948) is an American attorney, educator, and civil rights leader. Kwoh is the founding President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC).〔()〕〔(''Los Angeles A to Z: an encyclopedia of the city and county'' ), Leonard Pitt, Dale Pitt〕〔http://www.advancingequality.org/kwoh/〕〔http://www.wkconline.org/index.php/seminars/speakerpage/?sid=353〕 ==Early life and education== Stewart Kwoh was born to American parents teaching in China in Nanjing on September 16, 1948.〔Blackwell, Angela Glover, Stewart Kwoh, and Manuel Pastor. ''Uncommon Common Ground''. W.W. Norton & Company, 2002, p. 41.〕 When Kwoh was two months old, his family moved to Shanghai, then back to America, settling in Los Angeles〔Kang, K. Connie. "Building Bridges to Equality." ''Los Angeles Times'' 7 Jan. 1985, A1+〕 Kwoh’s mother, Beulah Kwoh (stage name Beulah Quo), was a film and television actress whose trailblazing career spanned almost 50 years and included co-founding the Asian American theatre organization East West Players in 1965 as well as becoming the first Asian American woman to win a local Emmy. Kwoh’s father, Edwin Kwoh, was a businessman who was involved in a number of non-profits, including the Los Angeles chapter of Volunteers of America. Edwin Kwoh served as a local board member and helped develop the organization’s China Project, which led to a number of U.S. volunteers training individuals in China on topics ranging from policing to accounting. Beulah died in 2002, and Edwin died in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://advancingjustice-la.org/media-and-publications/press-releases/apalc-mourns-passing-community-leader-edwin-kwoh )〕 Kwoh earned his Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Los Angeles, and his ''Juris Doctorate'' from the UCLA School of Law.〔http://www.committee100.org/aboutus/member_bio.php?member_id=51〕 Kwoh continues to have close ties with UCLA; he teaches at the university’s Asian American Studies Department and has been an instructor at UCLA School of Law. He is a past expert in residence at UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, and has two honorary doctorates from Williams College and Suffolk School of Law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stewart Kwoh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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