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Barbara Takei

Barbara Takei is a Sansei from Sacramento, California, who was raised in Detroit and graduated from Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C. Barbara is chief financial officer of the nonprofit Tule Lake Committee and has spent the past decade researching and writing about Tule Lake's segregation history and working to preserve the site. She is the co-author of Tule Lake Revisited: A Brief History and Guide to the Tule Lake Concentration Camp Site , second edition (2012).