Interview with Connie Sugiyama

Constance “Connie” Lori Sugiyama was born in Don Mills, Toronto, in 1953. She was an integral part of the Redress movement in the 1980s, involved at both the community and federal levels. One of several Japanese Canadian lawyers who used their expertise to help secure individual redress for victims of internment, she would later become a board member for the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation, then for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Connie was a founding member of the Sedai Oral History Collection and retired from law in 2012.