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Ayako Nagano

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Managing Attorney at Midori Law Group, P.C.

Berkeley, California

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Ayako “Aya” Nagano is Managing Attorney at Midori Law Group in Berkeley, California. In 2019, she was appointed to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a federal advisory council which advises the Office of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She also serves on the Boards of Clean Water Fund, Nippon Kobo, and Healing Tide. She is a conceptual committee (founding) member of the Frontline Resource Institute, an organization that supports and advocates for frontline organizations in the environmental justice context. As an advocate, her interests lie at the intersection of permaculture, water law, food sovereignty, environmental justice, and school garden education. Until recently, Aya sat on the steering committee of the Green Leadership Trust, a coalition of board members of color promoting equity within the Green movement, and was co-chair of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition in California, which works to build psycho-social-spiritual resilience in the age of climate change. She also organized the Plastic Reduction Working Group in the Berkeley/Albany area, pre-pandemic. In the estate planning and administration context, Aya has a niche practice serving U.S. residents who have relatives in Japan. Aya has also advised individuals on estate administration and probate, and has advised businesses on immigration law, corporate law, and employment law matters since 2001. From June 2006 to May 2011, Aya served on the advisory committee of the Northern California chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA). Aya has also served on the Community Relations Committee of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California. From 2003 to 2006, Aya ran a bi-monthly Tenants Rights Workshop in Oakland, California, for the East Bay Community Law Center. At the outset of her legal career, Aya served as a staff attorney at the HIV Law Project in New York, NY, and provided legal representation to low income, HIV + persons for matters involving their housing (landlord-tenant), benefits, and living wills. During law school, Aya worked at the Union of Needletrade, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE!, a member of the AFL-CIO), Lincoln Square Legal Services Battered Women's Rights' Clinic, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Florence, Arizona, and Witness, which was a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights ("LCHR"). Ayako also participated in a human rights mission to Turkey in a joint project between LCHR and the Crowley Human Rights Project.

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Berkeley, California

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