Hawaii Book & Music Festival

Franklin Odo is an author, activist, and historian. He was involved in the movement that created Asian American Studies in the late 1960s. Odo has published widely and taught at numerous colleges and universities. He was founding director of the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American... Read More →

Gail Y. Okawa, professor emerita, English, Youngstown State University, Ohio; visiting scholar, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. Since 2002 when a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, she has explored the experiences of Japanese immigrants... Read More →