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DINA SHEK
LEGAL DIRECTOR, MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
AGE: 42
Dina Shek aspired to be a cellist while studying at the New England Conservatory of Music, but family history and life experiences led her elsewhere.
"My mother was born in Lodi, Calif., just a few weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor," says Shek, whose mother is of Japanese ancestry. "As an infant, she was interned in internment camps, along with my grandparents and uncles, in Rowher, Ark., and later at Tule Lake, Calif."
As a college student, Shek studied that period of history and served as the graduate intern for the...