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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JANM Volunteers in the Time of Covid

Julia Murakami

40 staff and 200 volunteers are the human resource numbers for the Japanese American National Museum. With volunteers outnumbering staff 5:1, the hallways and the Takei Volunteer Center became much quieter places in early March when, for health safety reasons, we had to ask they no longer come into the …

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Julia Murakami is a Yonsei native Angeleno, the daughter of a Kibei Sansei Hibakusha father and a Shin-Issei mother.
She's the Volunteer Program Manager and a Project Manager at JANM. Her most recent project is the exhibition "Transcendients: Heroes at Borders".
Prior to joining the Museum staff, Julia volunteered at JANM for 17 years in a variety of capacities.

Nikkei interests

  • community history
  • Japantowns

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