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Marlene Shigekawa is a Board Member and the Executive Director for the Poston Community Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history and stories of the Japanese American community imprisoned at the Poston Incarceration Camp located on the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) reservation. Collaborating with the CRIT Tribal Council, she has been responsible for the completion of several projects including: digitizing oral histories, relocation of a Poston barrack, producing a documentary film and restoring historic adobe classrooms at the Poston site.

www.postonpreservation.org

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Poston Barrack Relocation (2010)

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Stabilization efforts at the Poston Elementary School Site I,

a National Historic Landmark (2017)

Poston Pilgrimage (2018)

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