Doris MatsuiThis new authority was given to the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

the JACL recognized the importance of congressional action as a means of both raising awareness regarding issues affecting Japanese Americans and challenging unjust laws that discriminated against them and other Asian immigrant groups.Even after her initial victory.

)Sugi became the first lobbyist for the organization in 1931.She meanwhile became active in Los Angeles politics.and Hiram Johnson of California.

Sugi travelled to Seattle along with Charles Kamayatsu to represent the Los Angeles chapter at the groups first national convention.Although the most famous of the JACLs lobbyists was Mike Masaoka.

Sugi was appointed by the City of Los Angeles to serve on the election board for Precinct 1491.

individual chapters organized their own initiatives.Donna Nagata from University of Michigan has investigated the legacy of the WWII incarceration and how it still reverberates in the Japanese American community decades later.

She will report on her much-awaited research findings regarding the cross-generational impact of the trauma as experienced by Yonsei respondents in comparison with her 1987 study of the Sansei.stage reading of The Garage Door Opener.

we will witness and learn about the repair that has emerged from our desire to be whole again.a Japanese American social justice organization.