The Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz is a writer, thought leader, educator, and ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She is also the Assistant Dean of Admission, Vocation, and Stewardship at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

In part one, the difference between race and racial identity, and why that's important; why people of faith should deal with inconvenience and hard things for the good of our world; and Laura’s visit to the internment camp in Topaz, Utah, with her great-uncle who was placed there with other Japanese-Americans during World War II.