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The Sunshine Cure, Electric Literature, February 2024

What an epic women’s strike can teach us over 70 years later, The Nation, March 2023

Found: An 80-Year old wedding cake with a tragic past, Atlas Obscura, February 2023

Manzanar Children’s Village: Japanese American orphans in a WWII concentration camp, Tropics of Meta, November 2021

Unsettling settler belonging in the American Southwest, Abusable Past, October 2020

Epidemics in American concentration camps: From the “white plague” to COVID-19, Abusable Past, March 2020

Immigrant detention centers are a grim reminder of Japanese American history, PRI’s The World, April 2019

The US imprisoned Japanese Peruvians in Texas, then said they entered ‘illegally,’ PRI’s The World, October 2018

Meet Doña Luz Jiménez, the forgotten indigenous woman at the heart of Mexico’s cultural revolution, PRI’s The World, March 2018

Strikers, scabs, and sugar mongers, Jacobin Magazine, August 2017

The curious origins of the “Irish slaves” myth, PRI’s The World, March 2017

Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II could still vote, kind of, PRI’s The World, October 2016

The people who pick your berries in Washington will now be represented by a union, PRI’s The World, October 2016

How Japanese and Mexican American farmworkers formed an alliance that made history, PRI’s The World, August 2016

The workers who pick your berries are asking you not to buy them, PRI’s The World, July 2016