BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oacc.cc X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Asian Cultural Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153643Z CREATED:20180604T202418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153643Z UID:4420-1527872400-1527883200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lincoln Summer Nights DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lincoln-summer-nights/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153619Z CREATED:20180604T214700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153619Z UID:4436-1529758800-1529773200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/hawker-fare-stories-recipes-from-a-refugee-chefs-isan-thai-lao-roots/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180628T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180628T210000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153559Z CREATED:20180627T232741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153559Z UID:4488-1530212400-1530219600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Finding Japanese-American Roots in Japan and the U.S. DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/finding-japanese-american-roots-in-japan-and-the-u-s/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153538Z CREATED:20180604T214914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153538Z UID:4439-1530900000-1530907200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:'SKY\, MOUNTAIN & WATERSCAPE' - Kam Cheung Mok Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/opening-reception-of-chinese-ink-wash-landscape-painting-exhibit/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180722T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180722T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153531Z CREATED:20180703T214837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153531Z UID:4521-1532271600-1532278800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Chinese Exclusion Laws and Being Muslim American in Post 9/11 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/chinese-exclusion-laws-and-being-muslim-american-in-post-9-11/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180728T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180728T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153435Z CREATED:20180703T224814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153435Z UID:4537-1532804400-1532808000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:See You at the 7 - Stories From the Bay Area's Last Original Mile House DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/see-you-at-the-7-stories-from-the-bay-areas-last-original-mile-house/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180801T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180801T160000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153406Z CREATED:20180717T220819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153406Z UID:4557-1533128400-1533139200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:First Wednesdays at Madison Park DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/first-wednesdays-at-madison-park/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180803T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180803T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153322Z CREATED:20180717T220933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153322Z UID:4559-1533315600-1533326400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:First Fridays:  Lincoln Summer Nights DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/first-fridays-lincoln-summer-nights/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180827 DTSTAMP:20190404T153317Z CREATED:20180807T211733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153317Z UID:4648-1535155200-1535327999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Oakland Chinatown StreetFest 2018 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oakland-china-town-streetfest-2018/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180905T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180905T160000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153242Z CREATED:20180718T185310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153242Z UID:4573-1536152400-1536163200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:First Wednesdays Madison Park DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/first-wednesdays-madison-park/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180907T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180907T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153216Z CREATED:20180718T185649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153216Z UID:4575-1536339600-1536350400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:First Fridays: Lincoln Summer Nights DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/first-fridays-lincoln-summer-nights-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180909T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180909T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153141Z CREATED:20180717T223122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153141Z UID:4568-1536458400-1536512400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Opening Reception: The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons Presented and Curated by: Abraham Ignacio DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/opening-reception-the-forbidden-book-the-philippine-american-war-in-political-cartoons/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180916T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180916T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153122Z CREATED:20180829T175909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153122Z UID:4707-1537117200-1537128000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Filipino-American History during the 1965-1970 Grape strikes - Book Reading / Film Screening / Photography Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/filipino-american-history-during-the-1965-1970-grape-strikes-book-reading-film-screening-photography-exhibition/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events,Past Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180923T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180923T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153029Z CREATED:20180918T225301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153029Z UID:4800-1537689600-1537722000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:IN OAKLAND: “Fighting Dictators in the Philippines\, Then & Now” DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/in-oakland-fighting-dictators-in-the-philippines-then-now/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180923T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180923T190000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153003Z CREATED:20180718T190112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153003Z UID:4580-1537720200-1537729200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Peace Lantern Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/peace-lantern-ceremony/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180927T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180927T203000 DTSTAMP:20190404T152903Z CREATED:20180718T185809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152903Z UID:4578-1538069400-1538080200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:2018 Chinatown Mayoral & District 2 Candidate’s Forum DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oakland-chinatown-coalition-candidates-forum/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180930T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180930T160000 DTSTAMP:20190404T152857Z CREATED:20180906T231650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152857Z UID:4769-1538312400-1538323200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Mountain Spirits MUSIC & DANCE PERFORMANCE / FILM SCREENING / TRUNK SHOW DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/mountain-spirits-music-dance-performance-film-screening-trunk-show/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T180000 DTSTAMP:20190404T152849Z CREATED:20180906T231523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152849Z UID:4765-1538762400-1538762400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Hinabi Project:  Weaving Peace and Dreams ~ Textile Arts of Mindanao DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/the-hinabi-project-weaving-peace-and-dreams-textile-arts-of-mindanao/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T220000 DTSTAMP:20190429T224144Z CREATED:20181001T220038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T224144Z UID:4820-1539457200-1539468000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Silindro Pilipino Project DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/silindro-pilipino-project/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CZ-Silindro-Pilipino-May-5th-small-web-card.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T152704Z CREATED:20181001T220326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152704Z UID:4825-1539504000-1539536400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Free Kidney Disease Screening DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/free-kidney-disease-screening/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T200000 DTSTAMP:20190429T223723Z CREATED:20181001T222004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T223723Z UID:4841-1539540000-1539547200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Women of World Dance Show DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/women-of-world-dance-show/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OACC-Lataniashowflyer1-1-791x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T203000 DTSTAMP:20190429T224040Z CREATED:20181001T221353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T224040Z UID:4835-1540405800-1540413000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Book Talk: America is Not the Heart DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/america-is-not-the-heart/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/elaine.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T210000 DTSTAMP:20190404T152544Z CREATED:20181023T195436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152544Z UID:4889-1541181600-1541192400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Kusinang Pilipino Culinary Experience DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/kusinang-pilipino-culinary-experience/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T210000 DTSTAMP:20190520T205540Z CREATED:20181026T222546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T205540Z UID:4937-1541698200-1547672400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Crossing Boundaries: Calligraphies In Conversation DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/crossing-boundaries-calligraphies-in-conversation/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181118T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T151616Z CREATED:20181101T211231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151616Z UID:4985-1542556800-1542571200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Oakland Asian Cultural Center Friendsgiving Potluck DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oakland-asian-cultural-center-friendsgiving-potluck/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T151558Z CREATED:20181115T231101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151558Z UID:5043-1543600800-1543608000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Hapa Tales and Other Lies" at Oakland Asian Cultural Center DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/hapa-tales-and-other-lies-at-oakland-asian-cultural-center/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T183000 DTSTAMP:20190429T224930Z CREATED:20181101T211610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T224930Z UID:4987-1543602600-1543602600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Crossing Boundaries - An Evening of Cuisine\, Calligraphy and Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/crossing-boundaries-an-evening-of-cuisine-calligraphy-and-ceramics/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dinner-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190112T180000 DTSTAMP:20190404T151518Z CREATED:20181209T202811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151518Z UID:5131-1547283600-1547316000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Imagine Talks 2019 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/5131/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T151423Z CREATED:20190108T194607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151423Z UID:5275-1547575200-1547582400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Art of Sho - Calligraphy Workshop DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/5275/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T130000 DTSTAMP:20190404T151404Z CREATED:20190115T222925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151404Z UID:5311-1547985600-1547989200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Music of the Americas DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/san-francisco-chamber-orchestra-music-of-the-americas/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Chamber Orchestra":MAILTO:Info@TheSFCO.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR