Selena Moon will lead FREC’s August 2022 Community Learning Circle.

Access the Zoom link here at 4:30PM CT on August 18th, 2022.

As a disabled, mixed race Japanese American independent scholar researching Japanese American mixed race and disability history. Ms. Moon has written and presented her work at various historical and ethnic studies conferences and has written for historical and history of medicine organizations. She is on the Advocacy Committees for the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the Association for American American Studies (AAAS), to increase membership and support for underrepresented communities and was recently elected to the East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) board.

Selena is working on publishing a picture book and writing a middle grade book about her research about disabled Japanese American children in the World War II incarceration camps. She hopes to begin a PhD next year to pioneer Japanese American disability history.

Selena will lead the discussion with what the Free-Thinking Abolitionists Interpreting Racism (FAIR) Collective, is currently pursuing. The core members being several un(der)-employed museum workers that came together to create a traveling exhibit to teach children about racism.

The FAIR Collective recruited exhibit designers, artists, and others, to create the interactive components to be housed in a school bus to teach kids about racism, its effects, and ways to combat it. Collaborating with the local community at each host site to make the exhibit relevant.