We are excited to announce Eri Hotta as our opening keynote speaker for the Leadership Summit! Learn more about Eri below, and don’t forget to register!

Eri Hotta is the author of Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World and other English and Japanese-language books including Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy, an account of the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Hotta studied history at Princeton and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She was once a struggling yet passionate Suzuki parent to Josephine Buruma, who is now seventeen and is a dedicated musician doubling in violin and viola. Suzuki was named a 2022 Book of the Year by The New Yorker magazine and was re-released as a paperback in September 2024 by Harvard University Press.

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