L. Dew Kaneshiro

L. Dew Kaneshiro is a private consultant whose services include educational programs, strategic planning and meeting facilitation, and project development and implementation. Her areas of expertise include access to the courts, services to linguistic minorities, employment discrimination prevention, and sexual violence and human trafficking issues.

Ms. Kaneshiro is a graduate of New York University School of Law and holds a B.A. in Economics from San Francisco State University. From 1992 to 2004, she was the Project Director for the State of Hawai`i Judiciary’s Office on Equality and Access to the Courts, designing and implementing programs to promote access for unrepresented litigants and limited-English speaking court users.

Ms. Kaneshiro has developed and conducted training programs for judges, attorneys, law students, court staff, and interpreters; and she has created guidebooks for judges, police, prosecutors, and victim service providers. She taught legal writing and appellate advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii’s Richardson School of Law. Ms. Kaneshiro has been a speaker and panelist at numerous state and national conferences and has facilitated strategic planning sessions for organizations such as Aloha United Way and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission. 

Ms. Kaneshiro is currently staffing the Hawaii State Attorney General’s Coalition Against Human Trafficking. She is also facilitating the development of a sexual violence prevention plan for Hawaii’s Micronesian communities and is working with a non-profit organization to evaluate their services to linguistic minorities and develop a language access plan. 

Updated February 27, 2008