Mary Yamashiro Otani
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Mary Yamashiro Otani (Japanese: メアリー山城大谷) (b 1923 (Berkeley)- d 2005) was a Richmond, California community activist.[1] She was a student at UC Berkeley when she was forcibally removed to a internment center for Japanese Americans first living with her family at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno and later at an isolated desert camp in Topaz, Utah.[1] Later a Quaker group persuaded the authorities to allow college-aged students to continue their studies at East Coast Schools.[1] Yamashiro then attend Boston University where she met her husband Bill.[1] She was the summary writer for city elections voter guides.[1] Yamashiro set up the Richmond Farmers Market and also the Richmond Annex Senior Center.[1] She oversaw the Richmond City Council and the Ports Commission for the League of Women Voters.[1] She was a Unitarian Universalist.[1] She was one of 6 siblings born to an immigrant Okinawan family and because of this established a self titled YMCA college fund for poor first time college students of South East Asian descent[1][2]
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