Welcome to The Center's Blog Space.
Each month a featured blog leader will open up a virtual discussion. She will work under an umbrella of four topics that will be discussed from her chair of an Asian Pacific American Woman: Transition, Balance of Profession and Family, Whole Person Leadership, and Financial Well-Being.

We are proud to have Peggy Nagae as our first contributor. Peggy has experience and expertise in leadership development and coaching, diversity and cultural competency, strategic planning, communication and potentiating the human spirit at work, which she has fostered for over 17 years in her business peggynagae consulting. Her work has involved serving as the pro bono lead attorney in reopening a Supreme Court case, Yasui v. United States, on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. As the lead attorney in a case without precedent, she managed a team of lawyers who also volunteered their time, lived in three different locations and worked for five years to overturn a forty year old conviction. She knows that leading is more than managing; it is about a vision, inspiration, role modeling and the heart.

Peggy started as a trial attorney in Portland, Oregon, served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Oregon School of Law, then as a lawyer and law firm leader at a Seattle litigation firm, where she was responsible for the recruitment, hiring, professional development and evaluation of associates.

Peggy's work focuses on developing teams and leaders to reach aggressive business goals with greater grace and ease, using fewer resources and gaining more potent results. In addition to coaching, her skills include change at the individual, interpersonal and institutional levels.

Peggy received her A.B., cum laude, in East Asian Studies from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York; juris doctorate degree with honors from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, in Portland, Oregon; M.A. in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica in Santa Monica, California; and a B.A. and M.A. in Illumination Sciences from the Jwalan Muktikai School for Illumination Sciences in Whitefish, Montana. She has also completed post-graduate work in Education Management from Harvard University.

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