Director of Communications, Equal Justice Society

Keith Kamisugi is the director of communications at the Equal Justice Society. He is responsible for the organization’s media relations, new media strategies, marketing, IT and telecom. Keith brings to EJS more than 11 years of public relations experience, including positions as a regional spokesman for Verizon Communications, account manager for technology PR agency Niehaus Ryan Wong and serving a diverse portfolio of companies as an independent consultant. He also served for four years on the executive staffs of Hawai’i governors John Waihee and Benjamin Cayetano.

He has presented talks on public relations, online strategies, politics and business for numerous organizations, including: University of California at Berkeley, University of San Francisco, Golden Gate University, The Anderson School at UCLA, Marin County Youth Commission, staff of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Public Relations Society of America, Greenlining Institute, Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, QUAD Equal Employment Opportunity Training Conference, Oakland Rotary, the SPIN Academy, the Democratic National Committee’s American Majority Partnership, the Opportunity Agenda, API Justice Coalition of Silicon Valley, the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.

Keith was born in Hawai’i and attended the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where he served as student body president and as co-founder and co-chair of the University of Hawai’i Student Caucus, a coalition of organizations representing more than 44,000 students of the university system’s ten campuses.