Satsuki Ina: Detention & Democracy

This event is free and open to the public. Please register HERE.

About the Speaker

Born at Tule Lake Segregation Center, Satsuki Ina is a professor emerita at California State University, Sacramento and a licensed psychotherapist specializing in community trauma. She has produced two documentaries about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans—Children of the Camps and From a Silk Cocoon—and she is the co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity, a direct action project working to end immigration detention. She is the author of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest.

Additional speakers include: Mari Matsuda, Professor Emerita, William S. Richardson School of Law; Stephanie Haro Sevilla, Legal Fellow, Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic; and Susan Serrano, Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice (moderator).

Parking Information

Parking near the venue will be available for $5 in the Lower Campus Parking Structure (Zone 20). See map.

This event is co-produced by the Watada Lecture Series, the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series, and the William S. Richardson School of Law.

The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of UH Mānoa and the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, with support from the UH Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy.

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