Grant Din (YC’79), Genealogist and Angel Island Historian - Asian Immigration: Angel Island History

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

Genealogist and historian Grant Din explores the deeply personal and complex narratives of Asian immigrants who passed through the Angel Island Immigration Station. This session will illuminate the grueling interrogation processes and detention experiences of early immigrants, highlighting their resilience and the lasting impact of these historical gatekeeping practices on AAPI community history.

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…