Join author Satsuki Ina in conversation with NPR's Here and Now host Deepa Fernandes on Ina's latest book, The Poet and the Silk Girl, a compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations.

Satsuki Ina is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in community trauma and author of The Poet and the Silk Girl. She helps victims of oppression to claim not only their voice but also their power to transform the systems that have oppressed them. Her activism has included cofounding Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites. Ina has produced two documentaries about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Children of the Camps and From a Silk Cocoon. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, Democracy Now! and the documentary And Then They Came for Us. A professor emerita at California State University, Sacramento, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Deepa Fernandes is a bilingual journalist who has covered guerrilla insurgencies, natural disasters and political coups in countries from Haiti to East Timor to the United States. She covers women’s and children’s issues, education, immigration, poverty and indigenous issues. She is co-host of NPR's Here and Now and previously served as an immigration correspondent and senior newsroom advisor on race and equity at the San Francisco Chronicle. Deepa was named “Radio Journalist of the Year” three years in a row by the LA Press Club — 2016, 2017 and 2018. She won an LA Area Emmy in 2018, and has won dozens of awards over the course of her career.

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