Alvin George Outstanding Volunteer Award.

blogs and e-boards of any Asian community-based organizations.The first hope in these cases is that the patient in need of the stem cell transplant can receive it from a sibling.

The rest of the database is shared among all the other races of the world.with individuals of mixed race being one of the smallest components in the registry … We have heard stories of one-half Japanese/one-half Caucasians not finding a single match in the registry.Her stem cells are no longer making blood cells or platelets.

We are asking folks who fit this description (and especially one-half Japanese.an 18-year-old resident of Utah and student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

there is an ethnic component to the likelihood of finding a match.

we have started a campaign with Be the Match to try to bring more 18-40-year-olds of mixed Asian/Caucasian descent into the donor database.which she retired from in 2023.

In 2017 she was appointed to the George and Sakaye Aratani Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration.Intimate Strangers charts the experiences of Shin Issei lives: their existence in Japan prior to migration.

The Nikkei community has been transformed by the inclusion of Shin Issei.She is president of the Japanese Association of Migration Studies.