Teri learned poker at 12 from her grandmother — patience, strategy, knowing when to fold. Decades later, those same skills shaped how she navigated corporate America and a political evolution she never saw coming. But beneath the poker face is a Japanese American woman reckoning with prison camps, cultural silence, and the question of when endurance becomes a script.

Japanese American identity, intergenerational memory, and what emerges when a woman taught to endure chooses to speak — in letters, at a protest, and in this conversation.