Valerie Yoshimura

Foodie French Teacher in Santa Barbara, CA. Committed supporter of the performing arts. #Hapa ever grateful to 442/100th RCT. #NewsiesForever #GoBlue!

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

So humbled and #grateful. https://t.co/GYa3CvumRk

[Johns Hopkins CTY @CTYJohnsHopkins]

Congrats to teacher Valerie Nao Yoshimura, winner of CTY's 2017 Friedel & Otto Eberspacher Award! 🎉https://t.co/y02YqcdASA #Edu #teachers

[Newsies the Musical @Newsies]

Joey Barreiro, our Jack Kelly, gives a special performance of "Santa Fe" ahead of our final tour performance. ❤️

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@Vegalteno @mamacita1126 @Lin_Manuel Kids!

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

My family, too. #DayofRemembranc

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@sboumedi @cookiesinheaven Really? Where to get more info?

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

With my mother. Daddy’s funeral.

He wasn’t assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.”

But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.

He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn’t exist.

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@DEdwards__ @UMichFootball YAYYYYYYYY!!!! 💙💛

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

.@Big10Channel why are you talking over the introductions in #Michigan ceremony?

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@teachergoals “Whatchu talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?”

“10-4, Rampart”

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

My daughter!

[Stanford University @Stanford]

As students at Stanford, Vivian Shay, ’24, Marlon Washington, ’23, and Max Manson, ’23, developed solutions for a sustainable future, delivered personalized healthcare, and built the next generation of rockets.

See them featured in the university’s new broadcast commercial 👇

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Check out our billboard in Times Square:

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

Credit card companies should waive the fees on donations….why should a charitable gift (e.g., to Maui) STILL increase profit of @Visa or @Mastercard ? #MauiStrong

[Rob Bonta @AGRobBonta]

Today, on the 35th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, my office formally apologized for its past role in the deprivation of Japanese Americans’ civil liberties during WWII.

The suffering caused by these actions is incalculable and the moral injustice is undeniable.

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@JEspinoza1634 @arioos19 Super psyched for you, Alberto!

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@StanfordBSB @Angels @arioos19 SO EXCITED!!! Congratulations @arioos19 !!! We are thrilled you’ll stay in CA!

[Stanford Baseball @StanfordBSB]

One of the top hitters in the nation and a true leader.

The @Angels got a great one in @arioos19.

#GoStanford | #MLBDraft

[Our Esquina @OurEsquina]

Alberto Rios hardly played during his first two seasons at Stanford. @arioos19 waited patiently and then became the Pac-12 Player of the Year as a junior to leave his mark at Stanford, which he credits with giving him 'everything.'
#CWSOmaha #Stanford https://t.co/czVFNefH8O

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

What an amazing, fun season @StanfordBSB @arioos19 ! I’m ready : season tix for next year !

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@VoxHochuli @StanfordBSB Exactly! No mention of that beautiful double

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@Bonnieorona @StanfordBSB @NCAABaseball So handsome!

[Valerie Yoshimura @VYinLA]

@StanfordBSB @NCAABaseball @GoStanford Have watched nearly every game this season and can’t get tix….argh!!! What’s the secret?