In this episode we are excited to share a podcast to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month.

This podcast allows our guests to talk about the spike in AAPI hate crimes, the ways we felt we belong and were othered due to our ethnicity, and the things that makes us proud in terms of our racialized identities. We are grateful to be joined by Mari Horita, Vice President Community Engagement and Philanthropy - Seattle Kraken and Brian Surratt, Vice President Real Estate Development and Community Relations - Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

Our guests' stories range from Mari's history as a sansei (third generation Japanese-American) and the impacts of the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II to Brian's experience as a bi-racial Korean-American and African-American man.

Listen to our guests as they explore their identities, historical moments, anti-Blackness, the falsehood of zero-sum, and raising bi-racial children in Seattle.

Also please take time to visit the Our Stories are Your Stories website to listen to local AAPI folks like Hollis Wong-Wear, Yuji Okumoto, Gary Locke, Lana Condor, and Doug Baldwin tell their own stories and add your own AAPI story to their platform.

Thank you again to the Big Phony, a Korean-American singer/songwriter living in Seoul, South Korea for allowing us to his music in our intro and outro, all royalty-free!