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Lillian Kimura was 13 during WWII when she and her family were incarcerated at the Manzanar WRA Center in California. Influenced by her experience with YWCA—which served to educate Japanese American women and girls interned at the camp—sh
After she and her family were sent to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, Joy Hashimoto became active in the YWCA movement after her mother helped establish YWCAs in the camps. Learn more 👉 link in bio #YWCALeader #AAPIHeritageMonth2023 #AAPIHM2
For the past 20 years, Eun Kyung Kim has focused on advocacy, management, and fundraising in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors—and she is the first AAPI Executive Director of YWCA of Queens. We are proud to celebrate her many achieveme