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Tongdan Jia
Read Tongdan Jia's artist statement. Tongdan is our Junior Division, Honorable Mention of the 2025 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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Freya Albert
Read Freya Albert's artist statement. Freya is our Junior Division, Second Place winner of the 2025 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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4 days ago2 min read
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Victoria G. Valles Garcia
Read Victoria G. Valles Garcia's artist statement. Victoria is our Junior Division, First Place winner of the 2025 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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4 days ago1 min read
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Tavia Tamayo Zepnewski
Read Tavia Tamayo Zepnewski's artist statement. Tavia is our Senior Division, Honorable Mention of the 2025 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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5 days ago2 min read
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Katherine Messner,
Read Katherine Messner's artist statement. Katherine is our Senior Division, Second Place winner of the 2025 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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Abigail Lee
Read Abigail Lee's artist statement. Abigail is our Senior Division, First Place winner of the 2025 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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Alice Doern
Read Alice Doern's artist statement. Alice is our Junior Division, Honorable Mention winner of the 2024 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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May 24, 20241 min read
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Miko Brooks
Read Miko Brook's artist statement. Miko is the Senior Division, Honorable Mention winner of the 2024 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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May 24, 20242 min read
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Emmeline Henriques
Read Emmeline Henriques's artist statement. Emmeline is our Junior Division, Second Place winner of the 2024 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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May 24, 20242 min read
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Morgan Salvo
Read Morgan Salvo's artist statement. Morgan is our Junior Division, First Place winner of the 2024 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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May 24, 20242 min read
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Evie Chan
Read Evie Chan's artist statement. Evie is our Senior Division, Second Place winner of the 2024 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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May 24, 20242 min read
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Saya Tipton
Read Saya's artist statement. Saya is our Senior Division, First Place winner of the 2024 Minoru Yasui Student Contest.
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May 24, 20242 min read
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Recognize Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi's Bravery with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
(Photo courtesy National Archives and Records Administration) As you know in 2014 and 2015, I and others, spearheaded an effort for my...
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Apr 17, 20243 min read
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Aika Peraza: Responsibility
Student Art Contest: Junior Division, Second Place 7th Grade – Twality Middle School Growing up, during my social studies class we were...
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Aug 5, 20232 min read
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Violet West
Student Art Contest: Junior Division, First Place 5th Grade – Alameda Elementary School I belong to many communities, including the...
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Aug 5, 20231 min read
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Evie Chan
Student Art Contest: Senior Division, Second Place 9th Grade – Oregon Episcopal School Minoru Yasui once said “We are born in this world...
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Aug 5, 20232 min read
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Gabriella Ejercito
Student Art Contest: Senior Division, First Place 11th Grade – Aragon High School My ceramics piece is a sculpted hand rising from the...
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Aug 5, 20232 min read
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Minoru Yasui: Continuing a legacy
By Peggy Nagae My deep gratitude to Holly for suggesting we start the Min Yasui Legacy Project and focus on two initial projects: the...
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Jul 12, 20232 min read
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Minoru Yasui Student Contest: Inspiring Young Leaders
By Jillian Toda-Currie Jillian Toda-Currie is a Co-Chair of the Minoru Yasui Student Contest Committee, along with Cynthia Basye who has...
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Jul 12, 20232 min read
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His Legacy Today Panelist
Anna Reutin My name is Anna, I am the Minoru Yasui fellow for the second year running, here at the University of Oregon School of Law....
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Jul 12, 20232 min read
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