NJAHS’ upcoming exhibit “Re-envisioning Community” is a look back at the Hapa Issue Forum’s (HIF) history through photographs, documents, and artifacts. In 1992, HIF was founded as an organization which sought to give individuals of mixed race a more prominent role within the Japanese American community while expanding the very concept of what it meant to be Nikkei. It eventually received nationwide recognition for its efforts, lobbying successfully for a “check all that apply” option in the 2000 U.S. Census, leading a delegation to the International Nikkei Youth Exchange in Peru, and receiving a JACL National Youth/Student Vision Award. In recent years, however, the organization was unable to sustain a desired level of programming and participation, and officially marked its own disbanding with a commemorative event in September of 2007. This exhibit is intended to draw attention to the work of the organization’s members, and to uphold their mission to celebrate the growing diversity within Japanese America and the API community at large.