Ep 97 Nell Y Murphy - Journey to Manzanar Girl Scout Gold Award Project

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Nell created an interpretive website including videos and an interactive game to increase awareness of Manzanar, a Japanese camp, and those that lived there.

More about Nell:

Nell Yukiye Murphy (18) is a 2022 Girl Scout Gold Award recipient for her project, Journey to Manzanar. Nell's grandfather, actor Jerry Fujikawa, was incarcerated at Manzanar, along with his family from 1942-1943. She has made several trips to the Eastern Sierra and Manzanar, including an indelible trip with her Los Angeles-based Girl Scout troop. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she graduated this year from Ramon C Cortines School of Visual and Performing Art. She is currently a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama, where she is studying acting and carrying on a long family tradition of being a performer and storyteller.

Links:

https://sierraforever.org/journey-to-manzanar/

Recent article about the project: https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/10/24/nell-yukiye-murphy/

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