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Karen L. Ishizuka is the author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Sixties (2015), Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (2006), and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (2008). An award-winning documentary writer/producer and museum curator who helped establish the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, she received a Master’s Degree in Social Work from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. A third-generation American of Japanese ancestry, Ishizuka lives in Culver City, California with her husband, filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura and has two children and three grandchildren.
Updated September 2017