a critical and often overlooked resource for understanding AAPI history.

are dedicated leaders and outstanding members of the greater Los Angeles Japanese American community.Watanabe established her law practice after seeing how the efforts of just a few students could influence the policies of a large institution.

Barbara Shirota – Nominated by East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community CenterBarbara ShirotaIn 1961.she has ensured that all stories of the Japanese American community.She also organized and coordinated the ballroom dances held at the ESGVJCC and hosted the annual Scholarship Tea.

Muranaka returned to Los Angeles and started working at The Rafu Shimpo.The university recognized and awarded honorary degrees posthumously to students whose education was disrupted in 1942 due to the signing of Executive Order 9066.

Margaret Shimada retired from her role as director of service programs in March.

Shiba also serves as vice president of the Japanese American Treaty Centennial Scholarship Committee.Pacific Cinewaves: Programming celebrating stories and storytellers emerging from Hawaii.

An archive image from Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement.Honestine Paala-Fraser received her MS in digital communications at Syracuse University.

the first nonprofit organization in the U.Ralph witnesses the pain and humiliation of his Japanese American friends and their families.