Dennis Arashiro is the son of a Japanese American soldier and his Japanese war bride. After an early childhood in Hawaii, he came to Alaska in 1961 and made Alaska his lifelong home. A graduate of East High School and Alaska Methodist University, he has taught in the Anchorage School District for 45 years. Arashiro has been a member of the Anchorage UUF Fellowship for 9 years, and chaired AUUF’s Social Justice Committee for a number of years.