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Erica Wei


Erica Wei is in her second year of her undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). A Northern California native (from San Francisco; makes her home in Sacramento), she serves as the Cultural Chair of the UCSD Nikkei Student Union.

Updated July 2018


Stories from This Author

Three Reflections on Visiting The Manzanar National Historic Site

July 12, 2018 • Erica Wei , Moet Kurakata , Lauren Matsumoto

Erica Wei, Moet Kurakata, and Lauren Matsumoto were participants in the Manzanar Committee’s pilot project, Keeping Japanese American Incarceration Stories Alive, which took a group of college students to the Manzanar National Historic Site for a two-day, intensive, placed-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. They shared the following reflections on what they experienced at Manzanar during those two days. * * * * * Erica Wei Leading …

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