Graduate Alumni

Since 1994 at the opening of the SUA Graduate School, Founder Daisaku Ikeda’s messages have expressed its founding spirit. In his words,

Our challenge is to change the world through education. Our mission is to foster a steady stream of global citizens committed to living a contributive life.

Daisaku Ikeda

Founder

About Soseikai

The alumni group name "Soseikai" was designated by the Founder on May 3, 2001.

So is from Soka (“value creation”), Sei means “pledge” or “vow” and Kai means “group” in Japanese. The name itself as well as the Founder’s speeches show his hopes and expectations for SUA graduates as they continue to work toward actualizing Soka Education in the world.

The mission of SUA Soseikai association is to unite and expand the alumni network in our shared commitment to Soka Education through appreciation, contribution, and friendship, and hereby foster continuous societal change and global citizenship.

The Association shall be committed to the following principles:

1. Be global citizens committed to living a contributive life. Live up to our mission as leaders of our times for the sake of the people.
2. Be proud supporters of SUA and build networks or friendship for the sake of Soka Education. Our greatest honor is to repay our debt of gratitude to our alma mater.
3. Be forever youthful founders. Preserve SUA's founding spirit.

The Association shall be committed to the following mottos:

1. Contribute to the development of SUA and proliferation of Soka Education, embracing the university’s mottos and principles.
2. Create great value in all aspects of our lives for the sake of humanity and society.
3. Foster true camaraderie among Soka students and alumni.
4. Be life-long learners that reveal our true potential.

Soseikai Members' Profiles & Stories

Essays submitted for the Student Anthology Project

World Summit of Educators

The graduate school classes of 2016 and 2017 planned and organized an international gathering of rank-and-file educators dedicated to the establishment, through education, of peace, human rights, and the sanctity of life as universal norms. Held at SUA on June 12 and 13 in 2016, the Summit took its inspiration from a talk delivered by the founder of the University, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, twenty years earlier at Teachers College, Columbia entitled “Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship,” in which he called for just such a summit. The founder’s hopes and expectations found their impassioned realization in the work of the first and second cohorts of the University’s MA Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change. Without their voices, their thoughtful and painstaking planning and organization, the Summit would never have materialized when it did or as it did.

Visit World Summit of Educators website for the Declaration and more information.

Celebrating 30 years of the Graduate School

View Timeline of Soka University of America’s History

Tomoko Takahashi smiles in a meeting room with glass windows overlooking Peace Lake and Founders walk.

2024 Summer Reunion

Celebrating 30 Years of Impact: Soka Graduate School Reunion Gathers Alumni From Around the World

Alumni and their families pose for a commemorative photo of the 30th anniversary of the SUA Graduate School

Graduate School Alumni pose for a selfie on campus during the 2024 Reunion.

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The current SUA Graduate Alumni Soseikai Board of Representatives are

Quetza Ramirez, Class of 2023 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
Laura Cooper, Class of 2021 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
Anna Lane, Class of 2020 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
Maya Gunaseharan, Class of 2019 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
Hiroko Tomono Furniss, Class of 1996 (MA in Second and Foreign Language Education with a Concentration in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

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