Building Empathy is a project of PEF and PUSD, with support from the California State Library and California Humanities
Featured Speeches
Students in the Spanish Dual Language program interpreted the themes of Japanese American detainment to write and perform public speeches about contemporary issues.
English Recordings
Spanish Recordings
Audio recordings collected by Pasadena Media’s sound engineer Joe Carbonetta and Building Empathy director Sehba Sarwar.
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What we hear!
“To be completely honest, I did not know a lot about the history of the Executive Order [9066], and how they lived during those times. But I think it was a really good experience to see first-hand from people that were there and from the relatives [of survivors], so they could explain to us about how hard it was for them to get through that time…”
—Diego, Blair International Baccalaureate School
