Interviewees featured on the broadcast include Gwen Muranaka.

She single-handedly contributes to the San Gabriel Valley JACL scholarship for high school students to fund an annual $1.Throughout her over 45-year legal career.

and shared with the community and the world.Mineta; co-founder/chair of Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California; co-founder of Asian Pacific Women’s Center (domestic violence shelter); advisory council member for Asian Americans Advancing Justice; volunteer for Go For Broke National Education Center (documentary shorts producer) and Japanese American National Museum (early campaign efforts to build its current home).Shirota started several programs at the ESGVJCC including the San Gabriel Valley Nikkei Singles.

she has been the president of the Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council.celebrating the accomplishments of high school seniors.

She also established the ESGVJCC scholarship for graduate students in memory of her late husband Jon Shirota and continues to contribute to her graduate school alma mater.

students and organizations is important so that this injustice does not happen again to any group of people.And while APIs may represent a small minority of the American incarcerated population.

API RISE (Asian and Pacific Islander Reentry Inclusion Through Support Empowerment).first connected with API RISE five years ago during a concert organized in support of children and families separated at the southern border.

formerly incarcerated APIs are often met with severe cultural stigma and isolation from their communities.I hope API RISE knows that Little Tokyo is proud to have them here and grateful for their work towards inclusion and justice.