Maki Usui

Maki was born and raised in Japan until she was 13, when she joined an international boarding school in India where she spent six years of her youth. She graduated from Lawrence University in Wisconsin with a BA in psychology and minors in music and studio art. She worked at a social welfare agency in Japan, assisting persons with disability for three and a half years before she served at a local deaf school in Rwanda as a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) volunteer for two years. Maki hopes to gain social work skills in international context through Global Activities Scholars Program so she can work at an international agency to empower children, youth and families in marginalized communities in the world.