2025 Outstanding Alumna

Satsuki Ina, Ph.D. was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a WWII maximum security prison camp for Japanese American dissidents. She is co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites and support front-line immigrant and refugee communities being targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies. She has produced two award-winning documentary films, From A Silk Cocoon and Children of the Camps. She is a consultant specializing in community trauma. She is author of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest.