Carol M Highsmith
American photographer
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Marilyn Nance
African-American photojournalist
Erna P O’Harris
Erna P. Harris (1908–95) was an African American columnist who defended Japanese Americans.
Hatsuye Egami
Hatsuye Egami was an Issei intellectual who wrote for Japanese American publications in California before the war. Her published assembly center diary and columns for the Gila News Courier provide a rare Issei woman’s perspective on the wartime incarceration.
Chiye Mori
Loretta Chiye Mori was a poet and journalist who contributed regular columns and articles to numerous Southern California Japanese American publications.
Guyo Tajiri
Guyo Tajiri (1915–2007) joined with her husband Larry Tajiri as editor and staffer of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) newspaper Pacific Citizen during World War II and the early postwar years, and kept the community informed of events through her advice columns, book reviews and reporting.
Louise Suski
Louise J. Suski (1905-2003) was the first English language editor-in-chief at the Los Angeles-based Rafu Shimpo newspaper.
Mary Oyama Mittwer
Mary “Mollie” Oyama Mittwer (1907–1994) was a Nisei journalist whose writing reflected many of the issues her generation faced during World War II.
Miya Sannomiya Kikuchi
Cultural ambassador and journalist.
Milly Woodward
Bainbridge Island newspaper publisher and editor who was among the few who opposed incarceration of Japanese-Americans dring WWII.