Joy Yamaguchi
Joy Yamaguchi (they/them) is the Director of Public Programs at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). They also currently serve as the cabinet representative for JANM for Sustainable Little Tokyo (SLT). They have a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with a focus on Public Humanities from Brown University. Joy is also a member of Nikkei Progressives, an intergenerational grassroots organizing group based out of Little Tokyo. Throughout their work, they are dedicated to supporting marginalized communities in telling and reclaiming their own stories and histories.
Updated May 2025
Stories from This Author
On the inside
May 21, 2020 • Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda , Joy Yamaguchi , traci kato-kiriyama
Welcome to another special edition of Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column. Two staff I work closely with at the Japanese American National Museum, public programs extraordinaire Joy Yamaguchi and digital guru Vicky Murakami-Tsuda, allowed me to facilitate a process with them to write poetry grounded in this particular era of Covid-19, lockdowns, missing and finding family, and the overall unknown of now. They took a risk, trusted the process, and ran with it and crafted some really lovely work. We …
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