Participants who dance at the event will receive a commemorative pinback button designed by Erica Kunihisa (www.

directions and parking: https://fowler.award-winning journalist and activist K.

She co-directed the Emmy Award-winning documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee.In 2023 she launched the Vincent Chin Institute to support AAPI communities against hate through multiracial solidarity to continue the 40-year Asian American civil rights effort to obtain justice for Vincent Chin.a UCLA BA alumna and a former **Pacific Ties** newsmagazine editor.

**She is a past board secretary of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).as a journalist and filmmaker with a focus on Asian American stories.

amplifying underrepresented voices.

Published by AAJA in partnership with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press.first president of Ladies of VFW Post 3670 and last remaining board member of Orange County Japanese American Community Services Inc.

to have a queen candidate from Orange County.the Kazuo Masuda Memorial VFW Post 3670 decided to sponsor a Miss Orange County Nisei Queen in the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Little Tokyo.

from left: Karen Karasawa Eto (1979); Karen Takeguma Woo (1977); Sandra Fukushima Ninomiya (1989); Denise Higuchi Bjorn (1990); Marissa Ishii Yamashita (2008); Dominique Mashburn (2014); Alice Amano (2018); Caitlyn Sasaki (2024).represent Orange County in many Japanese American events in Southern California.