Media Team
Producer & Writer
Whitney Peterson
Whitney Peterson is an anthropologist focused on amplifying underrepresented histories for public audiences. She is a senior producer at the non-profit organization CyArk, where she collaboratively produces 3D virtual experiences that highlight the diverse lived experiences of those connected to heritage sites around the world. Whitney was primarily responsible for story development, creating the interview guides, conducting interviews, and providing feedback during post-production. Snapshots of Confinement is based on Whitney’s MA thesis written at the University of Denver.
Diana Tsuchida
Host & Lead Subject
Diana Emiko Tsuchida is an independent historian and the creator of Tessaku, a non-profit oral history project and journal series dedicated to preserving stories of survivors from the WWII Japanese American incarceration. All American citizens, her father and grandparents were incarcerated in the War Relocation Authority camps of Santa Anita, Topaz, and Tule Lake. Her grandfather was a vocal resistor during the war and was additionally incarcerated in the Citizen Isolation Center in Leupp, Arizona and Department of Justice camp in Crystal City, Texas. Tessaku has been featured on NPR's Code Switch podcast, NBC's Asian Pacific America, Smithsonian Magazine, and a TEDxPeacePlaza talk called "The Continuum of Family Love." She holds a BA in Feminist Studies from UC Santa Cruz and a MA in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University.
Esteban Gómez
Producer & Writer
Professor Gómez is an urban ethnographer, visual anthropologist, and digital curator in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Denver. Gómez served as a co-host for season 1 of SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, and Senior Advisor for season 6 entitled, “The Problems with Coming of Age.” Throughout his career, Gómez has worked to produce pluralistic histories that are inclusive of groups and peoples whose pasts have been excluded and/or marginalized from larger national narratives.
