SOGI Minority and School Life in Asian Contexts

Makiko Kasai (she/her) works at the Naruto University of Education in Tokushima, Japan as a Professor and the Director of the Student Guidance and Support Center. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Ph.D. Her research interests include counseling and clinical psychology with psychoanalytic self psychology orientation and practice of sexual and gender minorities, cyberbullying, sexuality education, and LGBTQ+-friendly counselor training. She serves as the executive director of the Japanese Society of Clinical Psychology and as a national delegate to the Japanese Society of Clinical Psychologists.

Yuichi Toda is Professor at Osaka Kyoiku University (Osaka University of Education). He received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Tokyo, and then he studied a doctoral course at the University of Tokyo. He was a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London from March 1998 to January 1999 and for a short time Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna during the summer from 2007 to 2010. He has written several English language articles on bullying/ijime. His research with Dr. Dagmar Strohmeier has received den Hauptpreis des Bank Austria Preises zur Foerderung innovativer Forschungsprojekte 2008.

Stephen Russell (he/him) is Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development, Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, and Amy Johnson McLaughlin Director of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an expert in adolescent and young adult health, with a focus on sexual orientation and gender identity. He has served on the governing boards of the Society for Research in Child Development, National Council on Family Relations (and is an elected Fellow), the Council on Contemporary Families, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, and the Society for Research on Adolescence (he served as President 2012-2014).