Posts by Yuko Kodama

Honoring the Nikkei Farmers of Bellevue

Bellevue, Washington was home to a powerful Japanese American farming community before World War II. Find out how one local artist is honoring this group with an art display at Bellevue Arts Museum. (more…)


KBCS Story – Youth Mental Health and the Role of Trusted Adults

Kate Donaldson experienced her first of daily panic attacks during high school. Today, she advocates for youth mental health with a program she's created with Dr. Luci Hackbert to encourage a web of trusted adults for youth. (more…)


KBCS Story – ICE and Detention

Antonio Guerrero, (whose name is changed to protect their identity) describes what it was like to be picked up by ICE and to live and work for roughly a dollar a day at the US ICE detention center in Tacoma. (more…)


KBCS Story – Paul Tomita and Incarceration Based on Race

Paul Tomita was incarcerated with his family and 120,000 other Japanese Americans from the west coast as a toddler in 1942. Today he advocates against contemporary group detention of immigrants. (more…)