AAAYA 2026 Virtual Lecture Series: Lecture 3

Angel Island and the Asian American Immigration Story A Webinar with Grant Din

Grant Din BR'79 has worked in Bay Area nonprofit organizations most of his career, including at the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. He has worked as a genealogist and historical researcher and co-created an exhibit on the wartime detention of Japanese "enemy aliens" on Angel Island, as the lead author of the Chinese American Historic Context Statement for San Francisco, and as part of the research team for The Six, a film about the Chinese seamen who survived the Titanic.

At Yale, Grant was AASA president, minority recruitment bursary student, and “floating” freshman counselor. After Yale, he helped run a summer youth program in New York Chinatown, then was Asian American Counselor/Coordinator at Oberlin College, before returning home to be a Coro Foundation Fellow in Public Affairs. A former AAAYA board member, Grant and his wife Rosalyn Tonai…