Name: Sam IKEHARA
Organization: Women’s Voices, Women Speak, Hawai’i
Brief Profile:
- Organizer with Women’s Voices, Women Speak; Hawai‘i Okinawa Alliance; and O’ahu Water Protectors.
- She recently completed her Ph.D. in American Studies & Ethnicity at University of Southern California, where she investigated air as a site of U.S.-Japanese inter-imperial violence across Asia and the Pacific Islands that is contested through movements for demilitarization and sovereignty built around breath and wind. Her dissertation is titled Atmospheres of Relief: Air and Militarism in the Pacific Ocean.