Take my dear Pasadena High School friend Ken Okuno.

Theirs was not an unusual story.I have no memory of suffering as a child.

are nothing more than burned-out shells of buildings.particularly in the western side of town.the congregation gathered just the same last Sunday.

But to see Old Altadena – the heart of the community – reduced to charred rubble hit like a brick.it was made clear to Japanese Americans returning from the camps that they were not welcome in South Pasadena and Pasadena.

When my nose wasnt in Archie comics or Peanuts books.

with my prodigious fro trying to escape from under my cap.Throughout the history of Asians in the U.

LMUs Westchester Main Campus is located at 1 LMU Dr.The symposium is a student-planned and implemented event with the Asian and Asian American Studies Department and Asian Pacific Student Services.

and currently serves as a trustee of the Hawaiian Museum of Art and president of the Hawaiian Historical Society.a conversation on elevating the voices and experiences of persons of double minoritized Asian and African ancestry and its intersection with gender.