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After participating in the Asian American Political Alliance, she joined Third World Communications and became the editor of Aion, the first[citation needed]Asian American literary magazine, from 1970–71. She edited two anthologies for Third World Communications: Third World Women (1972) and Time to Greez! Incantations from the Third World (1975). Mirikitani then became project director for Ayumi: A Japanese American Anthology (1980).[4]
After two years of activism for Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in 1969 she became the program director. In 1982 Mirikitani was married to Reverend Cecil Williams. That same year she was chosen as the president of the Glide Foundation, where she was responsible for fund raising and budget oversight. In 2000, she was named the second poet laureate for the city of San Francisco. The California State Assembly named her Woman of the Year for the 17th Assembly District.[2][5][6]
Mirikitani at a protest in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco, California in 1977.San Francisco Supervisor Dorothy von Beroldingen is at right.
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