TRIALS Speakers

Chisato Kimura

TRIALS Class of 2021
3L, Yale Law School

Chisato Kimura was born in Daito, Japan, and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. She is a rising 3L at Yale Law School, focusing on the intersection of race and human rights in law. She served as an executive editor for features in the Yale Journal of International Law and as one of the student directors of the Schell Center for Human Rights. She is a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, and Yale Law Students for Justice in Palestine. Additionally, she serves as a student mentor for the Yale Launchpad Scholars Program. Chisato is a proud member of the TRIALS 2021 cohort and had the honor of serving as a teaching assistant for the 2022 cohort. 

Before law school, Chisato attended Mount Holyoke College, where she received her B.A., magna cum laude, in International Relations. Her honors thesis on the elimination of misconduct by United Nations peacekeepers won the Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis in International Relations. 

After graduating from Yale Law School, Chisato will be a fellow at the MacArthur Justice Center, where she is excited to work on a project to combat the repression of social movements by the criminal legal system.