Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer, chief curator of the Japanese American National Museum and a documentary producer.
She is a third-generation (sansei) Japanese American who, along with her family were incarcerated in the Manzanar and Jerome concentration camps during World War II.
[4][5] She is the author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties[6] and Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration.
Ishizuka was also the coeditor, alongside Patricia R. Zimmermann, of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories.
In 2016, Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura, her filmmaking partner and husband, received the inaugural JANM Legacy Award.