VOGUE and Yonsei Memory Project

YMP co-founder, Nikiko Masumoto, and I—along with an amazing group of West Coast Japanese American women activists—were featured in “Memory Keepers.” An honor! “As a yonsei,” Nikiko Masumoto says, “I know that in many of our families, we are the last generation to have a personal relationship with survivors of incarceration.”

Nikiko Masumoto stands behind her grandmother, Carole Yukino Sugimoto Masumoto on the Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, California.

Nikiko Masumoto stands behind her grandmother, Carole Yukino Sugimoto Masumoto on the Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, California.

Brynn Saito in her father’s garden in Fresno, California.

Brynn Saito in her father’s garden in Fresno, California.