Anna Tamura

Anna Tamura manages a national team of landscape architects, GIS specialists, and facility planners within the National Park Service’s Planning Division. Based in Seattle, Tamura brings 25 years of experience working on national parks and conducting studies that evaluate potential new park units. Her work has included leading complex planning and design initiatives for national parks across the country.

Tamura has overseen planning and research efforts for multiple Japanese American incarceration sites and nationally significant locations, including Minidoka National Historic Site, Manzanar National Historic Site, the Tule Lake Unit National Monument, the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial, Honouliuli Gulch in Hawai‘i, and Amache National Historic Site. Her scholarship centers on the landscapes and gardens of the incarceration camps, and she has contributed to advancing their preservation and interpretation.

Her commitment to this history is also personal: members of her family were incarcerated at Minidoka and Tule Lake. Tamura holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Bard College.