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Past Events

November 22, 2024
The American School in Japan - via Zoom

October 28, 2024
“The Mass Renunciations of U.S. Citizenship at Tule Lake,” Bard College, 5:30pm ET - via Zoom

July 22, 2024
U.S. Marines Corps, Okinawa - online

February 15, 2024
On Epistolary Essays, Kenyon College - via Zoom

November 7, 2023
The American School in Japan - via Zoom

October 15, 2023
“Tule Lake Survivors and Descendants Speak Out,” Tadaima, 5pm PT - via YouTube

October 10, 2023
On Writing Book Proposals, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa - via Zoom

October 7, 2023
“Appreciation vs Appropriation,” Twin Cities JACL + Made By Yuki, 5pm PT - via Zoom

November 28, 2022
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 4pm ET - via Zoom

November 7, 2022
The American School in Japan - via Zoom

October 13, 2022
“America’s Forever Wars in Asia,” NYU A/P/A Institute, with E. Tammy Kim and Jonathan De Santos, 4:30pm ET - via Zoom

May 4, 2022
Letter to a Stranger book event, Book Passage, 5:30pm PT - via YouTube

April 13, 2022
East Asia National Resource Center, The George Washington University, 12:30pm ET - via Zoom

December 3, 2021
Craft Workshop, "Uncovering Buried Pasts and Writing Character-Centered Nonfiction"
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, noon HST/2pm PT - via Zoom

December 1, 2021
Book Talk, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, noon HST/2pm PT - via Zoom

November 16, 2021
The American School in Japan & the University of Wisconsin, Madison - via Zoom

November 4, 2021
University of Chicago, East Asia by the Book! Center for East Asian Studies Author Talk, 5pm CT - via Zoom

September 30, 2021
In conversation with Elizabeth Miki Brina for Tadaima, 2pm PT - via Zoom
Watch here.

May 13, 2021
Stanford University - via Zoom

April 12, 2021
Columbia University - via Zoom

January 9, 2021
“Women and the Legacy of Imperialism in the Pacific,” with Shawna Yang Ryan
Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 1pm PT - via Zoom

October 26, 2020
The American School in Japan - via Zoom

July 28, 2020
Brown Club of Greater San Francisco - via Zoom

May 15, 2020
University of California Santa Cruz - via Zoom

April 29, 2020
St. Mary’s College - via Zoom

January 25, 2020, Los Angeles, CA
Japanese American National Museum, 2pm, in conversation with Dr. Lily Welty Tamai

December 6, 2019, Tokyo, Japan
The American School in Japan

December 4, 2019, Kyoto, Japan
Doshisha University

December 2, 2019, Okinawa, Japan
U.S. Consulate

December 1, 2019, Okinawa, Japan
Esparza’s Tacos & Coffee, 7pm

November 25, 2019, Tokyo, Japan
Temple University Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, 7pm

November 5, 2019, Mill Valley, CA
Mill Valley Rotary Club, 1pm

October 2, 2019, San Francisco, CA
Fulbright Forum and Fall Reception, 7pm

September 26, 2019, Chicago, IL
Japanese American Service Committee, 6pm

September 25, 2019, Chicago, IL
DePaul University, 6pm

June 29, 2019, Berkeley, CA
Eastwind Books, 3pm

June 28, 2019, Corte Madera, CA
Book Passage, 7pm

June 20, 2019, Sacramento, CA
Time Tested Books, 7pm, in conversation with Naomi Williams

November 8, 2018, Berkeley, CA   
“Who Gets to Be Hapa?” University of California, Berkeley

October 20, 2018, San Francisco, CA   
“Asian-American Authors Spill the Tea,” Lit Crawl