Watanabe also serves as the Vice Chair of the Race and Ethnic Advisory Committee (Asian Population) for the U.S.-Census Bureau, and sits on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts.He is the current President of the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund and a member of the U.S.-Japan Council.Dr. Watanabe received his Ph.D. and his M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University.Prefecture in Japan of ancestral origins: Aichi.