Stewart Kwoh is a civil rights advocate who has spent more than five decades building bridges across communities. He is the founder of Asian Americans Advancing Justice ? Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest Asian American civil rights organizations. He is also co-founder, with his wife Patricia Kwoh, of the Asian American Education Project, which brings Asian American history into classrooms across the country. Over the course of his career, Kwoh has worked alongside labor organizers, educators, and community leaders in struggles for civil rights, immigrant justice, and multiracial democracy. In 1998, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, often referred to as the ?Genius Grant,? becoming the first Asian American attorney and human rights advocate to receive the honor. A longtime Angeleno, Kwoh studied at UCLA and UCLA School of Law, where he later taught, and has mentored generations of students and organizers.