Thursday, June 12, 2025, 6:30PM-8:30PM
Join us for Coastal Lives: Asian Americans & the Salish Sea with Professor Megan Asaka on Thursday, June 12, 6:30-8:30PM, at Lopez Community Center for the Arts.
Asian Americans have a long history in the Pacific Northwest, stretching back to the nineteenth century. Award-winning scholar, writer, and teacher Megan Asaka’s talk will explore the roots of this history from a maritime perspective. It will connect Asian migration and settlement to the Salish Sea, showing how the region’s unique maritime environment shaped the contours of early Asian American life, society, and culture.
Megan Asaka is an award-winning scholar, writer, and teacher of Asian American history, urban history, and public humanities. She is the author of Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (University of Washington Press, 2022), which examines the erased histories of the communities that built Seattle. The book was inspired by her own family history in Seattle as well as her work as an oral historian and archivist for Densho, a community-based organization that seeks to preserve and share the stories of the Japanese American incarceration. She is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.
