Mary Otani

July 5, 1923 (age 82)

Berkeley, California , United States

She was a student at University of California Berkeley when she was forcibly removed to an internment center for Japanese Americans, first living with her family at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno and later at an isolated desert camp in Topaz, Utah. Later a Quaker group persuaded the authorities to allow college-age students to continue their studies at East Coast schools. She was the summary writer for city elections voter guides. Yamashiro set up the Richmond Farmers Market and the Richmond Annex Senior Center. She oversaw the Richmond City Council and the Ports Commission for the League of Women Voters. She was one of six siblings born to an immigrant Okinawan family and, because of this, established a Young Women’s Christian Association college fund for poor first-time college students of Southeast Asian descent.

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Boston University; University of California, Berkeley.

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She was a student at University of California Berkeley when she was forcibly removed to an internment center for Japanese Americans, first living with her family at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno and later at an isolated desert camp in Topaz, Utah. Later a Quaker group persuaded the authorities to allow college-age students to continue their studies at East Coast schools. She was the summary writer for city elections voter guides.

Yamashiro set up the Richmond Farmers Market and the Richmond Annex Senior Center.

She oversaw the Richmond City Council and the Ports Commission for the League of Women Voters. She was one of six siblings born to an immigrant Okinawan family and, because of this, established a Young Women’s Christian Association college fund for poor first-time college students of Southeast Asian descent.

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