Pamela Okano
Pamela is currently a high school teacher in River East Transcona School Division and taught a year in Florianópolis, Brazil in 2015-16. She worked as the Administrator at Manitoba Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre from 1993 to 1997 and spent a year on the JET Programme in Shiga-ken, Japan from 1992 to 1993. For many years Pamela was artistic director and performer with Hinode Taiko and was involved internationally in various taiko projects. No stranger to the organization she was first involved with the MJCCC Board in 1997. JCAM is important to Pamela as she considers the JC community to be her home and participated in many events throughout the years. Her interest now in JCAM is to build for the changing Japanese Canadian community and its future while continuing to celebrate and share Japanese Canadian history and culture with the wider Manitoba communities.