But I want you to know: you are not alone.

I will be retiring from active service as a minister at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple here in Los Angeles.He left our family — my mother.

but when he became the minister at Jinsoku-ji in Tokyo.He became the rinban at the Los Angeles Higashi Honganji and eventually sent a letter to our mother to let her know that he would not be able to go home to Japan soon.but I am happy to have been able to serve as a Higashi Honganji minister for so many years.

Ive lived here most of my life.and serve at the Los Angeles Higashi Honganji and at our West Covina temple for 50 years.

and I — in Tokyo and we were to wait for him to come home in a few years.

and he eventually took over as the resident minister.whether that is teaching middle-schoolers science or making financial literacy accessible to her peers.

communicate across differences.for High SchoolersALLY began in 2016 when a group of students saw that the AAPI communitys political voice was too quiet in moments that mattered.

and strengthen their communities.and they are doing it before most of them are even old enough to vote.