Currently, Pramila is the founder and Executive Director of Hate Free Zone Washington. An activist and writer, Pramila has been actively involved in international and domestic social justice issues for over 12 years, working across Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as domestically with immigrant and refugee communities in Washington state. She speaks frequently at universities and community events on issues of gender, globalization, development and community. She serves on several boards including Chaya, a non-profit organization serving South Asian women in crisis; the Institute of Current World Affairs; and Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat. Pramila has a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from Georgetown University in English and Economics. She is also the author of Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland (Seal Press, 2000).
Pramila and HFZ Campaign have received several awards and recognitions for its work, including the City of Seattle's 2002 Civil Rights Award, the Washington Bar Association's Access to Justice Community Leadership Award, the Japanese American Citizens League Leadership Award, the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's Community Leaders Award, a leadership award from Congressman Jim McDermott, and the Ecumenical Leadership Award from the Washington Association of Churches. In January 2004, Pramila was named one of the top ten Puget Sound regional leaders by the Seattle Times Editorial Board.","extent":"01:39:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-161","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":173,"namepart":"Pramila Jayapal"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 1, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Pramila Jayapal narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-jpramila-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-466","model":"entity","index":"21 21/{'value': 8937, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-466/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-466/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-466-1-mezzanine-7430ed5493-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-466-1-mezzanine-7430ed5493-a.jpg"},"title":"Floyd Shimomura Interview","description":"Sansei male. Born March 13, 1948, in Winters, California. Grew up in the Winters area where parents worked on a farm they had run before World War II, when they were incarcerated at the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Graduated from UC Davis School of Law, and worked in various capacities for the State of California. Elected National President of the Japanese American Citizens League in 1982, and was involved in the redress movement, helping to draft the redress resolution.","extent":"2:55:25","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-466","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":913,"namepart":"Floyd Shimomura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Emeryville, California","creation":"11-Mar-19","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Floyd Shimomura narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"ddr-densho-1000-466-1-mezzanine-7430ed5493-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-190","model":"entity","index":"22 22/{'value': 8937, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-190/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-190/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sfred-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sfred-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Fred Shiosaki Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born August 23, 1924 in the area of Spokane, Washington, known as Hillyard. Grew up in a multi-ethnic Hillyard area where his parents owned the Hillyard Laundry. When World War II began, was a senior at Rogers High School. Went on to attend Gonzaga University and then volunteered for military service, joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated U.S. Army unit consisting of Japanese Americans. Mr. Shiosaki fought in Europe, then returned to Spokane where he finished his degree at Gonzaga, and started his career and family.
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