This spotlight from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design highlights ten years of the Tomodachi Leadership program, which bridges Tohoku, Japan, with Berkeley to develop strategies for recovery using the Y-PLAN framework.

Each summer, students impacted by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Tohoku came to CED through CC+S in order to learn in Berkeley and lead in Japan.

“This program took a whole generation of young people and gave them hope. It spread the message that there is a brighter future.”

— John Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 2009–2013

Read the News Highlight on the CED website here.