Butte College Hosts Fall Diversity Speaker

Butte College hosted poet Brynn Saito who shared her work via Zoom on November 10.

Saito is a Kundiman Asian American poetry fellow and a two-time recipient of the California State Library's Civil Liberties Public Education grant for her work with Yonsei Memory Project (YMP). She shared her experiences collaborating and documenting the stories of survivors of the WWII-era incarceration of the Japanese American community. Saito also read new poetry inspired by her family's story of incarceration and discuss how poetry has served as a practice for healing and freedom.

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