Cynthia Liu


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Places Like This
San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Since 2007, nearly half of Puerto Rico’s public schools have closed – including the former elementary school of Johana Dominguez. Years later, Johana and a group of neighbors have reclaimed the school and transformed it into a community center.






A Girl From Hiroshima

Charlotte, North Carolina

70 years after Toshiko Ishikawa loses her home and entire family in the 1945 Hiroshima bombing, her Japanese-American daughter Kathleen, now an acclaimed author, tells the story of her mother.






I Am What I Am Because of You

Ontario, Oregon

In a rural town in Eastern Oregon, a small community of Japanese-Americans found and created a home. Hundreds relocated to Ontario after their release from internment camps in WWII, and most never left. For three generations of Iseris, home is the people that surround them, with an obligation to leave the world better than how it was found.