Linda Tamura

Linda Tamura Linda Tamura is Professor of Education Emerita at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She is the author of Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River (University of Washington Press, 2012) and The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1993). Linda co-curated What If Heroes Were Not Welcome Home? a traveling exhibit from the Oregon Historical Society. In 2021 she coordinated the “Go For Broke” stamp dedication in Oregon, and she co-coordinated the dedication of the Oregon Nisei Veterans World War II Memorial Highway in 2023 and its historical marker in 2025. She is a co-editor-in-chief of The Oregon Encyclopedia. Linda serves on the board of National Veterans Network, which is co-hosting the traveling exhibit on Nisei veterans, “I Am An American,” which traveled to 11 sites from 2026-2032.