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The women’s movement had only just begun to take form, and while most of her fellow classmates went straight from the dorms of Radcliffe to the role of housewife, Alfaro opted to further her education. Alfaro continued her studies at Berkeley, then began teaching English at Boston...
Soon after, Alfaro began working on a novel about the Japanese internment camps—or at least attempting to. “In reality, it was really just plain awful but I realized it fit perfectly into three acts, so I thought maybe I should try turning it into...
Alfaro also wrote and co-produced a short documentary titled “Japanese American Women: A Sense of Place.” The film focuses on Alfaro and 12 other Japanese-American women as they struggle to find a place in a society dominated by stereotypes. Alfaro said she...
Currently, having just turned 71, Alfaro continues to write every day and is in the midst of her latest play about an Asian-American professor at Harvard on the cusp of old age. “When you write, everything in your life falls through the filter of the play...
Her latest play, which symbolically brings Alfaro back full circle to her days at Radcliffe, is a testament to that.