Gary Mukai

Dr. Gary Mukai is the director of the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. SPICE focuses its work in three areas: curriculum development for elementary and secondary schools; teacher professional development; and distance learning education. Before joining SPICE in 1988, he was a school teacher in Japan and California for ten years. In honor of his cross-cultural international work, the Japanese government awarded him with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University.