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Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai grew up in the agricultural community of Oxnard, California, speaking Japanese and English in a mixed-race household. Dr. Tamai received her Ph.D. in History from UC Santa Barbara. She conducted doctoral research in Japan and in Okinawa as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow and was also a Ford Foundation Fellow. She is the curator of history at the Japanese American National Museum.
Updated June 2015