How one Seattle-area project is highlighting the stories of the AAPI community
The goal of the project is to help people in the AAPI community heal, and help those outside of it understand that all of us are not that different #newdaynw
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Maya Mendoza-Exstrom and Mari Horita are two founding members of Our Stories Are Your Stories, a project that aims to share the stories of AAPI people and break down barriers. Author: Joseph Suttner, New Day Northwest Published: 10:00 AM PDT May 28, 2021 Updated: 10:00 AM PDT May 28, 2021
SEATTLE As we reach the end of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a new video campaign called Our Stories Are Your Stories is aiming to share the stories of AAPI people in Seattle to break down barriers.
Our Stories are Your Stories: Peter Tomozawa
We sat down with Sounders FC President of Business Operations, Peter Tomozawa, to learn about his AAPI heritage and family story. Tomozawa is the only Asian-American President of Business Operations in North American professional sports.
Tell us about your AAPI heritage and what makes you most proud about your family.
PT: I am a first generation Japanese American. My parents were born and raised in Japan. I was born in London, England. My younger brother was born in Pisa, Italy and we moved to the U.S. when I was six years old. My father was a physics professor, graduated from the University of Tokyo, worked at Cambridge, University of London, University of Pisa, Princeton, Stanford and finally we settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he became a full professor and to this day at the age of 91 goes to work six days a week and publishes research. We came to this country with nothing other than my father and mother’s desire to be in