Youth – Pacific Citizen

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Sacramento JACL Awards 2025 Scholarships

Pictured (from left) are Sacramento JACL chapter scholarship recipients Eden Engelhardt, Remy Tanamachi, Madeline Sugimoto, Luka Davis, William DeAnda and…

GarrettJune 20, 2025

Columnists Youth

Preserving Our Heritage: Support the Pacific Citizen

Remy Kageyama In our fast-paced world where cultures blend and personal stories often get lost in the noise, the importance…

P.C. EditorJuly 5, 2024

Columnists JACL Youth

Fellows Corner: APALA’s Convention Motivated and Inspired Me to Stay Connected and Engaged

Bridget Keaveney One year has passed since my participation in the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)’s border tour of…

P.C. EditorSeptember 8, 2023

Columnists Youth

Fellows Corner: My Experience at the Jerome/Rohwer Pilgrimage

Michael Tanaka In early May, I had the privilege of embarking on a four-day pilgrimage to Little Rock, Ark., where…

P.C. EditorJune 2, 2023

Columnists Youth

Youth Perspective : ‘What Are You?’

Noah Kurima “What are you?” It is such a straightforward question. But for many Japanese Americans in my generation, the…

P.C. EditorJune 4, 2021

Columnists Youth

Youth Perspective: JACL Continues to Change Our Country for the Better

Andrew Gruhn This year’s JACL National Convention in Salt Lake City was a wonderful way for me to learn more…

P.C. EditorOctober 11, 2019

Columnists Youth

Youth Perspective: Community, Collaboration and Justice for All

Tomi Eijima Why would Japanese Americans be punished for something they couldn’t control? What was life in “camp” like for…

P.C. EditorOctober 26, 2018

Columnists Youth

Youth Perspective: Speech and Social Change

By Kenji Kuramitsu, JACL NY/SC Representative I recently returned from the JACL’s fall National Board meeting, held in our San…

P.C. EditorNovember 3, 2017

Columnists Youth

A Yonsei Transplanted: ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

By Matthew Ormseth The longer I work in journalism, the more I respect people of action who are less inclined…

P.C. EditorSeptember 21, 2017

Columnists Youth

A Yonsei Transplanted: Finding Truth That Withstands the Weather of Time

By Matthew Ormseth At the paper where I just started working, it’s something of an intern initiatory rite to cover…

P.C. EditorJune 19, 2017