Miki Kadota is an alumnus of the 2015 Building the TOMODACHI Generation Program. Through her stay in Washington DC and learning about the vibrancy of the civil society in the United States, she developed a great interest in protecting and supporting citizens' communicational activities, which lead to her current research on freedom of assembly and assembly law. After receiving her PhD in Law, she is currently working as a Program-Specific Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Law/ Hakubi Center, Kyoto University. While she has participated in many international research projects, she is particularly active in a research group that aims to address contemporary issues in democracy by studying the current state of assembly law in Japan, the United States, and European countries, aiming to contribute to the society through her academic activities and ambitions she gained through the program.