Keiko Honda

Keiko has worked in academia for over 10 years in the public health field in the US and internationally. She is now running her non-profit, Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society, to link her passion and experience to build healthy and more resilient communities. Keiko completed a Doctorate degree in Public Health in NYU and a post-doctoral fellowship in Cancer Epidemiology in Columbia University where she worked as a research scientist before she moved to Vancouver in 2009. She is currently teaching a course, Social Artistry Through Co-Creation at the SFU Continuing Studies to shed light on the shared roots of artistic development and of systems change to create more possibilities in our community.