Tuesday, June 20, 2023 • 5 p.m. (PDT) / 8 p.m. (EDT)

Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews. In the thirteenth episode, Alden M. Hayashi, a Sansei writer originally from Hawai‘i now living in Boston, will be interviewed by guest host Mia Barnett, co-chair of Okaeri, a Nikkei LGBTQ+ community group. Discover Nikkei has been sharing articles by Alden since 2021. Join us as they chat about his family history; why he decided to shift from writing about science, technology, and business to writing fiction to preserve stories of the Nikkei experience; his first novel, and his sense of identity as a gay Nikkei man.

Read Alden’s articles on Discover Nikkei before tuning in for this live interview and Q&A on the Discover Nikkei YouTube channel or on Facebook. Log into your YouTube or Facebook account to post questions for the Q&A!

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