Alicia Tsuyako Tan

Alicia Tsuyako Tan is a Japanese-Chinese American student from Orange County currently studying at University of California, Berkeley. She is an aspiring journalist and librarian currently interning for Yo! Magazine. In her free time, you can find her writing, reading, or playing Nintendo games.

Updated November 2023

Stories from This Author

Relearning our culture

Nov. 21, 2023 • Alicia Tsuyako Tan

This past May my senior prom was held at the Santa Anita Park race track. I dressed up, took pictures with my friends and felt like royalty for a day. After prom, I found out that the Santa Anita race track used to be a Japanese/Japanese American internment camp that my family was in. At first I didn’t take it very seriously. All I knew about the internment camps was what I learned from my history class: During World War …

California family histories genealogy identity racetracks (horse racing) Santa Anita Park United States World War II World War II camps

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