About the Authors: Summer Espinoza

Post written by Summer Espinoza, Project Manager at Go For Broke National Education Center

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I am the project manager for the National Digital Archives of Japanese American Military Service (NDAJAMS) here at Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC).  My primary responsibilities are to design and implement the standards and processes to create meaningful information about  the oral histories and special collections items in this digital initiative. For almost two decades GFBNEC volunteers and staff have worked diligently to record over 1,100 Nisei soldier oral history interviews.  The Hanashi Project’s successes now allows us to create the NDAJAMS so that we can publish and disseminate the narratives of these soldiers in service of our organization’s mission– to educate the community of the rights, challenges and responsibilities of citizenship.

Blog posts from me will be on the topic of project progress, lessons learned and highlights.  Please check back soon and often!

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to our Blog! The Go For Broke National Education Center is busily working to bring our materials to researchers using exciting new technologies in the digital world.  We are currently embarking on a two-year project funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources to create and launch an archive dedicated to the Japanese American military service experience of World War Two. In this archive, we will be making available primary source materials, including oral history interview videos, textual materials, and still images representative of the Japanese American experience. In the coming weeks, we will be posting both insights into the rich content of our archives and activity updates as our team works to support the mission of our organization: to educate the public about the responsibilities, challenges, and rights of American citizenship using the life stories of the Japanese American soldiers of World War II.