California State University, Long Beach, Criminal Justice Students partner with the staff of  Project Optimism to host two Community Feed events. Students learn more about the community of Long Beach through their research and hands-on engagement, which includes providing balanced meals, clean clothes, and showers to support currently unhoused individuals. Students promote, fundraise, and document the event. Go Beach!

Fans of nineteenth-century literature, culture, and history gather for a Saturday of magic in San Diego.
(Above) Dancing on the lawn
(Below) Hosting the Never-ending Story

Chapters is a multi-part Creative + Cultural Podcast series concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations—including civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices that are perpetrated on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
This series connects with ten California nonprofit organizations and the community leaders they collaborate with. Through art, education, and storytelling these episodes reflect on the past, react to our current times, and consider the future.

• Episode 273 - Nichi Bei
• Episode 270 - JACL of Monterey Bay 
• Episode 266 - Kizuna
• Episode 265: San Jose Taiko
• Episode 264: Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture
• Episode 263 - Write Out Loud 
• Episode 262 - Fresno Arts Council
• Episode 261 - LA Opera

This project was made possible with support from Chapman University and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Join us online for a celebration of 19th century literature read by professional actors. It's free. Don't know about Write Out Loud? Visit their webpage http://writeoutloudsd.com and/ or sign up for a daily professionally read story delivered to your inbox. Again, did I mention this?--it's free! Stay tuned for more information regarding this fabulous San Diego based non-profit organization.

Join me as I moderate a discussion with historian and community activist Mary Adams Urashima regarding the Historic Wintersburg property in Huntington Beach, representing over a century of Japanese immigration to the United States.

Join me in discussion with Sam Mihara, a Japanese-American survivor of racial imprisonment during WWII.

Join me for a lively panel discussion featuring LGBT Center OC Immigration Resources Specialist Luis Gomez, as well as Tony Ortuno and Olivia Zoey Martinez, on intersectionalities of the immigrant and LGBTQ communities.

Join me in conversation with Doctors Kristine and Ester as they share their overlapping fields of expertise, Asian American and Central American immigration/racial experiences in the United States.

Listen to a conversation featuring community activist Patti Hirahara and scholar of Japanese-American identity Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa. Find out why Japanese-American challenges are relevant in today's world and why they are not exclusive to Japanese Americans.