he was active on the JV and varsity basketball teams.

Nishio helped celebrate the book launch for NCRR: The Grassroots Struggle for Japanese American Redress and Reparations” in 2018.teaching seminars in Asian American studies and advising the Asian American Student Association at CSU Long Beach.

and about 100 of his friends held the inaugural Cycle for Alan event in his honor last AprilSAN FRANCISCO — The 53rd annual Oshogatsu Matsuri.a community celebration to welcome the Year of the Dragon.

a children’s art contest.at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California.

The event will feature cultural arts and crafts.

For information on other activities at the center.As his wife Yvonne emphasized.

Alan Nishio passed away at home.strategically-minded individual who used everything he had in the service of the people.

Alan told me that when he was diagnosed with his rare type of cancer.Alan represented the best qualities of the Sansei generation – rooted in activism.