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Alicia Upano: Writer, Digital Media Specialist & Contributor to the Mixed Race Initiative

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We are excited to bring you a second interview in partnership with the Asian American Literary Review and its Mixed Race Initiative. Writer and Digital Media Specialist Alicia Upano is our guest. Alicia collaborated with Maya Soetoro-Ng to contribute writings to “Mixed Race: Is A Pandora’s Box” about their Hawaiian mixed experience. Join us as we explore the impact of growing up in the most diverse state in the union and how that informed her writings. We want to thank Maggie Yiin for joining us in interviewing Alicia. Maggie was a Guest Editor for the Mixed Race Initiative.

This conversation belongs to the Mixed Roots Stories podcast series, which brings you the personal stories of scholars, activists, artists and community leaders whose work engages the mixed experience. Here, Alicia Upano looks back on her upbringing in Hawaii and the way that background influenced her writing and media career. Press play on the audio above for the full interview.