Bios: IPJ Staff

Emiko Noma, M.S., is Editor at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego, where she works primarily on the Women PeaceMakers Program and the Distinguished Lecture Series. At the IPJ, Noma has also served as Interim Program Coordinator and Peace Writer for the Women PeaceMakers Program, documenting the stories of Sister Pauline Acayo of Uganda (2005) and Svetlana Kijevcanin of Serbia (2006). In early 2006, Noma accompanied Executive Director Joyce Neu to Uganda as part of the institute’s Uganda Project and was an international observer to the presidential and parliamentary elections. She received her master of science in conflict resolution, with emphases in nonviolent social change and international conflict resolution, in March 2008 from Portland State University. Noma studied abroad in Oxford, England, has traveled extensively through Europe and Japan, and holds undergraduate degrees in English and Religious Studies from York College in York, Nebraska.

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