Marielle Tsukamoto, a longtime teacher and administrator in Elk Grove, California, followed in the footsteps of her mother.

The Tsukamoto family survived Japanese incarceration during World War II, and after the war, her mother, Mary Tsukamoto, finally got to live the dream she had given up, of becoming a teacher.

"She had a way of looking at each child, reaching them and telling them, you know, you are important. And you are worthy, and I believe in you. That's where I learned that I wanted to be a teacher."

Marielle Tsukamoto enjoys traveling in retirement and volunteers at the California Museum. There, Uprooted: An American Story, shares the experiences of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. "All of us that are now volunteering at the museum, we do it because have an obligation to the next generation, because of what the last generation did for us."