Lauren Matsumoto
Lauren Matsumoto is in her third year at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she is the past Cultural Awareness Chair of the UCSD Nikkei Student Union.
Updated July 2018
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Three Reflections on Visiting The Manzanar National Historic Site
July 12, 2018 • Erica Wei , Moet Kurakata , Lauren Matsumoto
Erica Wei, Moet Kurakata, and Lauren Matsumoto were participants in the Manzanar Committee’s pilot project, Keeping Japanese American Incarceration Stories Alive, which took a group of college students to the Manzanar National Historic Site for a two-day, intensive, placed-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. They shared the following reflections on what they experienced at Manzanar during those two days. * * * * * Erica Wei Leading …