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{
"pronoun": "She/Her/Hers",
"bio": "Marge Taniwaki spent her formative years incarcerated at Manazanar Concentration Camp near Death Valley during WWII. Utilizing lived experience buttressed by research and family history, she speaks to community groups and classrooms, giving a historically accurate accounting of the incarceration of those of Japanese ancestry by the US government based solely on their ethnicity.",
"layout": "person",
"phone": "303-333-2130",
"first": "Marge",
"expertise": [
"Civil Rights",
"Equality",
"Communications",
"Politics"
],
"organization": "Over the years: American Friends Service Committee/ Radical Information Project Bookstore/Chinook Fund for Social Change/Asian American CARP (Community Action Research Program)/Pacific Asian Coalition/ Asian American Mental Health Research Center/Malcolm X Mental Health Center/Witness for Peace/Asian American Mental Health Coalition/Pacific Asian Coalition/Japanese American Resource Center of Colorado/CURRENT: Japanese American Citizens League, Mile High Chapter/Nikkeijin Kai of Colorado/Tsuru for Solidarity/Save Our Seniors (Los Angeles)/Asian Roundtable of Colorado/Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition/Friends of Amache/radio producer at KGNU",
"pronunciation": "Marge Tah-knee-wah-key",
"location": [
"Boulder",
"Denver",
"Prowers"
],
"role": "Community activist/organizer/radical with survival job",
"last": "Taniwaki",
"title": "Marge Taniwaki",
"languages": "English",
"linktitle": "Marge Taniwaki"
}

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