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DR. REGAN F. PATTERSON is the Co-Founder of Black in Environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Principal Investigator of the Engineering Environmental Justice Lab. Previously, Dr. Patterson was the Transportation Equity Research Fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. She earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include air quality, sustainable transportation, community engagement, and environmental justice. ENGAGING THE WORLD: LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON HEALTH EQUITY is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America. Guest: Dr. Regan F. Patterson Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by PAST FORWARD https://pastforward.org in partnership with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/about/events/engaging-world.aspx at CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY https://www.chapman.edu/.
ADDISON ROSE VINCENT (they/them) is a 30-year-old transgender and nonbinary advocate, educator, and influencer based in Los Angeles, CA. They garnered national attention in 2013 as the first openly transgender participant https://www.cosmopolitan.com/college/a4465624/transgender-sorority-members-public-policy/ in the Chapman University sorority rush process, and again in 2014 as the first openly transgender candidate https://www.ocregister.com/2014/03/14/transgender-student-inspires-at-chapman-pageant/ in the Delta Queen pageant, leaving with the title of Miss Congeniality. Since graduating from Chapman in 2015 with a BA in Peace Studies, Addison has worked with various nonprofit organizations across the state and country advocating for the LGBTQ+ community, including the Victory Fund, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Strength United, TransLatin@ Coalition, Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, and Nonbinary & Intersex Recognition Project. Addison currently serves as the Founder & CEO of Break The Binary, their consulting firm which provides DEI and LGBTQ+ training and supportive services to organizations, schools, and businesses around the world. Addison also serves as a Board Member for LA Pride and as the Project Director for History Reimagined, an organization focused on breaking cycles of domestic violence and the school-to-prison pipeline by empowering youth with their own family and community history. ENGAGING THE WORLD: LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON HEALTH EQUITY is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America. Guest: Addison Rose Vincent Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by PAST FORWARD https://pastforward.org in partnership with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/about/events/engaging-world.aspx at CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY https://www.chapman.edu/.
CHRISTINE FUGATE is an award-winning producer and director whose work has been screened in theaters and broadcast on channels around the world. She has produced pilots and programming for networks including Discovery, VH1, Disney, A&E, Sundance, Travel Channel, PBS, and HBO. She has also spent time interviewing celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Julie Andrews, and Anne Hathaway. For her unscripted work, she was named one of Showbiz's Top 100 Directors. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Documentary and Narrative Film at Chapman University. ENGAGING THE WORLD: LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON HEALTH EQUITY is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America. Guest: Christine Fugate Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by PAST FORWARD https://pastforward.org in partnership with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/about/events/engaging-world.aspx at CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY https://www.chapman.edu/.
CEDRIC TAI is an undisciplinary artist born in Detroit, Michigan, residing in Los Angeles. They have an Art Education BFA from Michigan State University, and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. Their artwork and teachings focus on neurodivergent experience, labor, and politics. The artist also shares their perspectives through printed brochures such as 'How to Advocate for Yourself at the Doctors Office' and 'An ADHD Zine for/by Artists'. In their exhibit, @fakingprofessionalism, Tai gives experimental, provisional, and non-clinically proven answers that provide a middle ground between social media hot takes and inaccessible scientific discourse. Tai shares their personal journey through the American healthcare system, professional sphere, and art world. ENGAGING THE WORLD: LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON HEALTH EQUITY is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America. Guest: Cedric Tai Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by PAST FORWARD https://pastforward.org in partnership with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/about/events/engaging-world.aspx at CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY https://www.chapman.edu/.
LESLIE A. SCHWALM https://leslieschwalm.com is Professor Emeritus of history and gender, women's, and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa, where she taught courses on women's history, slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War. She is the author of prizewinning articles, books, and chapters on women's experiences of slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War; the struggle for civil rights in the postwar nation; and popular memory of slavery and the Civil War. ENGAGING THE WORLD: LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON HEALTH EQUITY is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America. Guest: Leslie A. Schwalm Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by PAST FORWARD https://pastforward.org in partnership with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/about/events/engaging-world.aspx at CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY https://www.chapman.edu/.
LINDA VILLAROSA https://www.lindavillarosa.com is a journalist, an educator and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. She covers the intersection of health and medicine and social justice. She is a journalist in residence and professor at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY and teaches journalism, medicine and Black Studies at the City College of New York. Her book Under the Skin was published in June 2022. ENGAGING THE WORLD: LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON HEALTH EQUITY is a series of interviews with activists, artists, educators, historians, and journalists about accessibility, cost, prejudice, and the human experience of healthcare in America. Guest: Linda Villarosa Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by PAST FORWARD https://pastforward.org in partnership with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/about/events/engaging-world.aspx at CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY https://www.chapman.edu/.
NORI UYEMATSU was born in Cupertino, CA and grew up in Cambell, CA. His family along with over 100,000 others were forced from their home and relocated to what Nori refers to as 'concentration camps" following Executive Order 9066. Nori enlisted in the army and served in the Korean War. Nori Uyematsu was commander of the Kazuo Masuda Memorial VFW Post 3670 in Garden Grove, CA, where he served three terms. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Nori Uyematsu Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
JANICE MUNEMITSU is a third-generation Japanese American Sansei. A native of Orange County, California, Janice was raised on the family farm and worked there from age 5 through high school. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and Biola University Institute for Spiritual Formation. Her family name, Munemitsu, 宗 光, means source of light in kanji. The Kindness of Color is her first book. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Janice Munemitsu Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
GORDON H. CHANG is professor of history at Stanford University and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities. In 2019, he published (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and, as co-editor, (Stanford University Press). These books draw from more than seven years of work conducted by the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford which he has co-directed. His other books include ; ; and . He edited or co-edited , with Judy Yung and Him Mark Lai; and . MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Gordon H. Chang Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
LUPE D. DUNN https://lupedunnportfolio.net is a first-time published author of . Within twenty-six years, I taught elementary and incarcerated youths and adults. I am enjoying retirement while writing material for my second book. THE BOOK POEMS, SHORT STORIES, AND ESSAYS Archway Publishing, 2023 A World Without Books https://pastforward.org/blogs/public-podcasting/tagged/a-world-without-books was created to help writers connect with readers. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen to episodes on our website https://pastforward.org/blogs/microcast, Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-podcasting/id1357380216, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5VHJ2IeZp7ddlB85ElNzcL?si=yTuyzWmJTAuCZ9oXi3VpiQ, or wherever you podcast. Past Forward https://pastforward.org is a curiosity company dedicated to educational accessibility. We work with community leaders from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private corporations, and public agencies to document today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
MATTHEW ARNOLD STERN https://www.matthewarnoldstern.com is an award-winning writer and public speaker. He has written professionally since 1983. He published four novels, including Amiga and The Remainders, and a guide to impromptu speaking, Mastering Table Topics. THE REMAINDERS Black Rose Writing, 2021 A World Without Books https://pastforward.org/blogs/public-podcasting/tagged/a-world-without-books was created to help writers connect with readers. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen to episodes on our website https://pastforward.org/blogs/microcast, Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-podcasting/id1357380216, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5VHJ2IeZp7ddlB85ElNzcL?si=yTuyzWmJTAuCZ9oXi3VpiQ, or wherever you podcast. Past Forward https://pastforward.org is a curiosity company dedicated to educational accessibility. We work with community leaders from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private corporations, and public agencies to document today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
BARBARA PRONIN https://barbarapronin.com worked as an actress, a probation officer, a news editor, and a substitute teacher, which inspired her first book, a guide to effective subbing. Her earlier mysteries, including three as Barbara Nickolae, earned kudos from best-selling writers Mary Higgins Clark and Tony Hillerman. Her latest mystery, “The Miner’s Canary,” was published last November. Her newest work, a World War II historical titled, “Winter’s End” will be released in early 2024. THE MINER'S CANARY https://pastforward.org/products/the-miners-canary-9781956851410 Touchpoint Press, 2022 A World Without Books https://pastforward.org/blogs/public-podcasting/tagged/a-world-without-books was created to help writers connect with readers. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen to episodes on our website https://pastforward.org/blogs/microcast, Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-podcasting/id1357380216, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5VHJ2IeZp7ddlB85ElNzcL?si=yTuyzWmJTAuCZ9oXi3VpiQ, or wherever you podcast. Past Forward https://pastforward.org is a curiosity company dedicated to educational accessibility. We work with community leaders from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private corporations, and public agencies to document today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
FARNAZ CALAFI loves all kinds of stories! Whether fact-based & well-researched or fictional and out-of-this-world bizarre! She previously worked for the Los Angeles Times & her opinion pieces have been published in USA Today, San Diego Union-Tribune, & The New York Times. She's the author of a non-fiction book titled, 'All Things Coffee' and an upcoming children's book titled, 'Hazel and Her Sun'. ALL THINGS COFFEE Farnaz Calafi, 2020 A World Without Books https://pastforward.org/blogs/public-podcasting/tagged/a-world-without-books was created to help writers connect with readers. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen to episodes on our website https://pastforward.org/blogs/microcast, Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-podcasting/id1357380216, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5VHJ2IeZp7ddlB85ElNzcL?si=yTuyzWmJTAuCZ9oXi3VpiQ, or wherever you podcast. Past Forward https://pastforward.org is a curiosity company dedicated to educational accessibility. We work with community leaders from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private corporations, and public agencies to document today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
GAYLE CARLINE is the author of 16 books, from mysteries to fantasies, with humor spread liberally among them. When she is not writing, she is leading workshops on writing, speaking at events, or riding her horse. Gayle enjoys creating fascinating characters whom she can involve in everything from chasing a killer to sailing a pirate ship. She lives happily with her husband and a sassy Corgi. In addition, she has a son and two horses whom she thoroughly enjoys even if they don’t live with her. NEW DRAGON SOARING: DRAGON SHADOWS BOOK 3 Dancing Corgi Press, February, 2023 A World Without Books https://pastforward.org/blogs/public-podcasting/tagged/a-world-without-books was created to help writers connect with readers. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen to episodes on our website https://pastforward.org/blogs/microcast, Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-podcasting/id1357380216, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5VHJ2IeZp7ddlB85ElNzcL?si=yTuyzWmJTAuCZ9oXi3VpiQ, or wherever you podcast. Past Forward https://pastforward.org is a curiosity company dedicated to educational accessibility. We work with community leaders from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private corporations, and public agencies to document today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
SYLVIA CHONG is Associate Professor in English and American Studies and founding director of the Asian Pacific American Studies minor at the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. in English and Philosophy from Swarthmore College, her A.M. in Education from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era (Duke UP, 2012), co-editor of (Re)Collecting the Vietnam War (AALR, 2015), and has written articles and book chapters on American exceptionalism, hopelessness, orientalism, the Virginia Tech shootings, and Samuel Peckinpah. She is currently working on a history of cinematic yellowface and racial performance. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Sylvia Chong Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
GREG ROBINSON, a native New Yorker, is Professor of History at l'Université du Québec À Montréal, a French-language institution in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of the books By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Harvard University Press, 2001), A Tragedy of Democracy; Japanese Confinement in North America (Columbia University Press, 2009), After Camp: Portraits in Postwar Japanese Life and Politics (University of California Press, 2012), Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era (University of Illinois Press, 2012), and The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches (University Press of Colorado, 2016), as well as coeditor of the anthology Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road (University of Washington Press, 2008). Robinson is also coeditor of the volume John Okada - The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press, 2018). His historical column “The Great Unknown and the Unknown Great,” is a well-known feature of the Nichi Bei Weekly newspaper. Robinson’s latest book is an anthology of his Nichi Bei columns and stories published on Discover Nikkei, The Unsung Great: Portraits of Extraordinary Japanese Americans (University of Washington Press, 2020). It was recognized with an Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History Honorable Mention in 2022. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Greg Robinson Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
STEPHANIE HINNERSHITZ is an author and historian with the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. She has previously taught at Valdosta State University and Cleveland State University. In addition to her professorships, her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Office of Diversity at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Library of Congress, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is the author of Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968, A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South, and Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II, which won the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association and Cornell University Industrial Labor Relations School. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guests: Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Yas Imamura Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL is the author , illustrated by Benji Davies, , illustrated by Lisa Sterle, and illustrated by Yas Imamura with more books forthcoming. She has a BA in Studio Art from Scripps College, and an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco. YAS IMAMURA is an illustrator of many picture books for children, including by Meeg Pincus and by Nancy I. Sanders. She's also a product designer for clients such as Anthropologie, Papyrus, and Sanrio. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guests: Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Yas Imamura Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
KIKU HUGHES is a cartoonist and illustrator based in the Seattle area. Her work has been featured in volumes 1 and 2, #6 and the. She creates stories about identity, queer romance and compassionate sci-fi. is her first graphic novel, and it is a story she's wanted to share for as long as she can remember. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Kiku Hughes Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
FRANK ABE is co-author of the new graphic novel on Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration, We Hereby Refuse (Chin Music Press: A Wing Luke Museum Book). He won an American Book Award for John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press), and made the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, on the largest organized camp resistance. He is currently co-editing an anthology for Penguin Classics on The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. Abe contributed the afterword to Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura (Stanford University Press), contributed a chapter to Frontiers of Asian American Studies (Washington State University Press), and has written for Ishmael Reed’s Konch, The Bloomsbury Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Amerasia Journal, International Examiner, Nichi Bei Weekly, Rafu Shimpo, and Pacific Citizen, among others. MEDIUM HISTORY explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures. Partnering with WILKINSON COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/index.aspx at Chapman University, this series will explore how comics, comic books, and graphic novels from and about the Japanese American Incarceration following Executive Order 9066, humanize the tragic experience, allowing the stories to live long past the lives of those who experienced it, and ensuring this never happens again. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY https://www.library.ca.gov/, this series is designed to be a companion to the interactive web project, IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF INTERNMENT: COMICS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAMP https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/imagesandimaginings. Guest: Frank Abe Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
ANGELICA SALAS joined CHIRLA in 1995 and became CHIRLA’s Executive Director in 1999. In her role, she has transformed CHIRLA into a mass membership immigrant-led organization that empowers immigrants and their families to win local, state, and national policies that advance their human, civil, and labor rights. She has grown CHIRLA into one of the nation’s largest and most effective immigrant rights organizations that organize, advocates, educates, and provides legal services to all immigrants. Angelica is a state and national leader in the advocacy for immigration reform and immigrant justice. She was instrumental in the formation of and serves on the Executive Committee of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) and the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), two of the country’s largest immigrant rights coalitions. She graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Sociology in 1993. In 2007, Occidental College awarded her an Honorary Doctorate for her many contributions making her one of the youngest persons to earn such an honor in the college’s history. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Angelica Salas Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
REBECCA TORTES (Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Assiniboine Sioux) has worked with California tribal populations for over 20 years and recently served as the executive director for the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association (CIBA), a statewide nonprofit working to preserve, promote, and perpetuate California Indian basketweaving traditions. Before joining CIBA, she worked as a tribal administrator, development manager, grant writer, and community liaison for many California-based tribes and tribal nonprofits. In addition, Rebecca has worked as a private consultant to several California tribal communities in developing, funding, and evaluating programs that support California Indigenous control and protection of traditional food systems, water, languages, traditional ecological knowledge, and land. Rebecca received her Bachelor of Arts in human development and psychology and her master’s degree in public administration from California State University, San Bernardino, and earned a certificate in professional advancement in philanthropy from La Sierra University. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Rebecca Tortes Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
TONY HOANG is the Executive Director of Equality California and Silver State Equality and a veteran of the LGBTQ+ equality movement. The son of Vietnam War refugees and the first person in his family to attend college, Tony is a proud first-generation immigrant who grew up understanding the marginalized intersections of sexuality, gender, race and immigration status. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Tony moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California. During college, he interned with the Pacific Council on International Policy and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor before joining Equality California as a field intern in 2009, beginning his long career with the organization. Tony went on to serve as Equality California's Database and Volunteer Manager, Director of Operations, Chief of Staff and Managing Director prior to his selection as Executive Director-designate in 2021. During that time, Tony played a pivotal role in the passage of groundbreaking civil rights legislation in California, Nevada and Washington, DC, implementation of statewide public education campaigns and the election of hundreds of openly LGBTQ+ and pro-equality candidates up and down the ballot. Tony helped usher in a dramatic expansion of Equality California’s budget, staff, programming — especially the organization’s political work and efforts to advance racial justice — and growth to over 900,000 pro-equality members across the country. Tony serves the City of Los Angeles as a Commissioner on the Innovation and Performance Commission. He also sits on the boards of Equality Federation, the national movement builder and strategic partner to state-based organizations advocating for LGBTQ people, and DTLA Proud. He is a member of the Center for Asian Americans United For Self Empowerment (CAUSE) Leadership Network and the Pacific Council on International Policy and serves as a mentor for the USC Lambda LGBT Alumni Mentoring Program. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Tony Hoang Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
SKYE PATRICK is the Library Director of LA County Library, one of the largest public library systems in the nation, serving one of the most diverse populations. She was previously Broward County Library’s Director and held leadership roles at Queens Public Library in New York and San Francisco Public Library. Patrick was appointed to the Executive Board of the Urban Libraries Council (ULC), the premier membership association of North America’s leading public library systems, in July 2017. ULC is on the cutting edge of library innovation, and Patrick has joined a dynamic team of leaders and works alongside the board to inspire libraries to evolve and grow. In January 2019, Patrick was named Librarian of the Year by Library Journal, a national publication. The award honors outstanding achievement and accomplishment reflecting the service goals of librarianship, including free access to information for all, encouragement of reading enhancement and expansion of library services to all residents, and strengthening the role of the library within the community. As the Library Director, Patrick continues to reinforce the Library’s role in the community as a civic and cultural center, a hub for public information and services, and an institution of literacy, innovation, and lifelong learning. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Skye Patrick Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
HOANG NGUYEN is the Director of External Affairs at AAPI Equity Alliance (AAPI Equity). Prior to joining AAPI Equity, Hoang served as a policy deputy at the Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, which has governing jurisdiction over more than 2 million residents within 20 cities and 23 unincorporated communities in LA County and 25 neighborhoods in LA City. While there, he oversaw a variety of policy and community issues such as immigration, AAPI affairs, older adults, redistricting, Census, and board operations. He was also the district’s representative and liaison for the areas of Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown and Thaitown. Hoang received a BA in Political Science from UCLA. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Hoang Nguyen Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
ABDI SOLTANI has served as the executive director of the ACLU of Northern California since 2009. During his tenure, he has pursued long-term priorities to deepen the ACLU’s presence in the California Central Valley and elevate the ACLU’s voice on state policy at the California state capitol. Abdi has worked directly on a number of ACLU campaigns. Through 2015, he co-chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy with then Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, where he helped draft the blueprint for safe and equitable legalization of marijuana in California. He has also worked on campaigns for racial justice, criminal justice reform, voting rights, and immigrants’ rights. Beginning in the mid 1990’s, the central arc of Abdi’s career as a civil rights advocate has been the transformation of California from a state that led attacks on civil rights to a state that is at the forefront of advancing equality. As an Iranian-American, Abdi is a champion of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, educating the public about its origins in the movement to abolish slavery and its impacts for equality and freedom for all of us. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Mason Granger Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
MASON GRANGER https://www.masongranger.com is the Deputy Director at Get Lit https://www.getlit.org. Originally from Philadelphia by way of Willingboro, NJ, Mason is a poet with 19+ years of professional experience on stage & in classrooms across 49 states and six countries as part of the performance poetry trio, The Mayhem Poets. In 2014, he created SlamFind, a digital platform to connect fans of poetry videos with the poets & live poetry venues where these videos are born. Connecting the poetry community to itself and the rest of the world continues to be the foundation of his work to this day. Between 2016-2018, Mason was the official videographer for Poetry Slam Inc., producing several iconic poetry videos that continue to garner millions of views across multiple platforms. In the spirit of his mission of always keeping the ‘live’ in ‘live poetry’, he also hosted the weekly PoetNY open mic at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC from 2017-2019 while also serving as Executive Director of Bowery Arts & Science through 2019. Now as a Los Angeles resident in his fourth year with Get Lit, Mason continues to pursue creative projects while helping to shape the future of spoken word poetry education in the state of California and beyond. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Mason Granger Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
CHARLES (CHUCK) DICKERSON III is the founder, Executive Director and Conductor of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles. He is also the founder, Executive Director and Conductor of both the South Side Chicago Youth Orchestra, and the Youth Orchestra of Tsakane, South Africa. He also serves as Director Special Ensembles at California State University, Dominguez Hills, as Director of Music at Rolling Hills United Methodist Church, and as the Choir Director at Leo Baeck Temple in Bel Air, California. He serves on the Board of Directors of the League of American Orchestras. He was recognized in December 2019 as a Professional of the Year by Musical America. He holds a Master of Music Degree with a focus on conducting from California State University, Los Angeles, and degrees from Howard University (B.S.) and American University (J.D.). He has studied with esteemed Conductors Gustav Meier, Daniel Lewis, and Kenneth Kiesler. He formerly served as Music Director and Conductor of the Southeast Symphony (2004-2011) and as Director of Music at Holman United Methodist Church. He has held important public and civic leadership positions in Washington DC and Los Angeles. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Charles Dickerson III Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
JACQUELINE VOGTMAN https://jacquelinevogtman.com won the 2021 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize for her book Girl Country. Her fiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Permafrost, The Literary Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Third Coast, and other journals. A graduate of the MFA program at Bowling Green State University, she is currently Associate Professor of English at Mercer County Community College. She has lived in New Jersey most of her life and resides in a small town surrounded by nature, which she explores with her husband, daughter, and dog. Girl Country is her first book. GIRL COUNTRY https://pastforward.org/products/girl-country-and-other-stories-9781950539765 Dzanc Books, 2023 A WORLD WITHOUT BOOKS https://pastforward.org/blogs/public-podcasting/tagged/a-world-without-books was created to help writers connect with readers during the pandemic. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-podcasting/id1357380216, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5VHJ2IeZp7ddlB85ElNzcL?si=yTuyzWmJTAuCZ9oXi3VpiQ, or wherever you podcast. Past Forward is a curiosity company dedicated to educational accessibility. Our public podcast service, paired with millions of discounted books curated into topic-themed collections, provides guidance and tools to support lifelong learning.
STEPHANIE TAKARAGAWA is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines cultural display. Her research broadly focuses on media, art, performance, exhibition, and theme parks and their relationship to racial representation. Much of her work specifically looks at the Japanese-American incarceration during WWII and how that is understood, represented and memorialized in the present. Her teaching areas include cultural anthropology and visual culture, Asian American studies and race and ethnic studies. CHAPTERS http://heritagefuture.org/chapters/ is a multi-part 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 project was made possible with support from Chapman University https://www.chapman.edu/ and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library https://www.library.ca.gov/. Guest: Stephanie Takaragawa Hosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels Produced by: Past Forward
