NJAHS Summer Camps

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BUSINESS IS CLOSED

NJAHS Summer Camps Education Advisor. Grace Morizawa, Ed.D. 
Dr. Grace Morizawa is the Education Coordinator for the National Japanese American Historical Society.  She serves as NJAHS Education Coordinator for our federally awarded Japanese American Confinement Sites grants and is responsible for the development of curriculum. Her focus is developing education projects for teachers using historic inquiry and place-place learning to critically examine the Japanese experience in the United States during World War II. She has over 35 years of experience in education as an elementary school principal and a 4th grade teacher in the Oakland and Berkeley Unified School Districts. Previously she was an elementary school teacher in Oakland and principal of Lake Elementary School in San Pablo.  She was also a Cluster Leader for Oakland’s curriculum department.  She designed language arts curriculum for National Council on Education and the Economy/New Standards Project and worked with teachers nationwide.   She is a teacher consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley, School of Education and holds doctorate in Education from UC Berkeley.  She received a B.A. in English from Pacific University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

Writing in Place Lead Instructor. Stephanie Baker, MA.
Ms. Baker's core strengths include establishing safe and trusting relationships with students, creating individual learning plans, and assessing students to articulate their strengths and challenges. At the Bay School of San Francisco, Stephanie works as a Learning Coach where she supports students in one-on-one sessions (Executive Function coaching) and works with student support teams, including parents, teachers, and counselors. She is a Teacher Consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley, where she teaches writing camps for students and creates material and facilitates writing workshops. Stephanie is happy to be back for a second year of Writing in Place.

NJAHS Discovery Camp Director, Lead Instructor. Rosalyn Tonai, MA.
“What a beautiful setting to engage kids in new ways of learning about history& culture and then allowing them to express themselves, says Tonai.  As NJAHS’ Executive Director, Ms. Tonai is enthusiastically doubling up as the Camp Director and Lead Instructor for the summer program. She has 29 years of nonprofit experience developing NJAHS youth leadership initiatives in Japantown and in Oakland’s summer youth employment program. She’s personally mentored generations of young professionals. She has co-edited curriculum titled the Bill of Rights: Japanese Americans in World War II and Making Peace. She received her MPA, in nonprofit management from University of San Francisco, and a BA in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Her love for children is shared by her son, Kiyoshi, 22, daughter Charlene, 14, and her always reliable husband, Grant Din.

NJAHS Discovery Camp Program Director, Instructor. Melissa Ayumi Bailey, BA.
Melissa is a second-generation San Francisco native of Japanese and Irish descent. Melissa has been on staff with NJAHS for 4 years, initially drawn to the organization through to her personal connection to the JapaneseAmerican incarceration experience and her studies in college. She received her BA in History from UC Santa Cruz in 2012. At NJAHS, Melissa is responsible for grant writing and project management. Melissa brings with her 5 years of experience working with children, particularly elementary school aged, attained through her work as a childcare provider for several families and her role as a proud auntie of three boys: a five year old and one year old twins.

Digital Technical Instructor. Max Nihei, MA.
Max is NJAHS Exhibitions and Collections Manager. He grew up in San Francisco and participated in many activities within the Japanese American community throughout his childhood. With his background as a former camp counselor at Japanese Community Youth Council, and an Eagle Scout, he is a welcome addition to the camp staff. He received his BA in history from UCLA in 2010 and his MA in Museum Studies from the University of San Francisco in 2014. As NJAHS’ “jack of all trades,” Max has produced several DVD shorts for NJAHS and worked as a technical advisor to our high school and college “Ninternship.” 

All staff are CPR certified and have cleared background checks.