Media Appearances

KUOW Casual Friday, April 8, 2022, Casual Friday with Naomi Ishisaka and Tan Vinh

KUOW Soundside, March 14, 2022, The refugee double standard

KUOW The Record, April 26, 2021, How to move from police accountability to justice

KUOW The Record, March 18, 2021, As anti-Asian hate crimes rise, Seattle pledges outreach and policing. Is that the right approach?

Converge Morning Update, March 1, 2021, Morning update show

KUOW Seattle Now, Feb. 21, 2021, Attacks on Asian Americans 'a test' of summer protests

Town Hall Seattle, Oct. 14, 2020, Ronald Chew with Naomi Ishisaka: My Unforgotten Seattle

Gee & Ursula Show, Sept. 3, 2020, What happens when your online reputation gets ruined

KUOW Seattle Now, Aug. 19, 2020, Pod's in session

KUOW Week in Review, Aug. 7, 2020, Protests, council meetings, and elections this week

KUOW The Record, July 21, 2020, Police reports

Town Hall Seattle, July 16, 2020, Speakers Forum: Pramila Jayapal with Naomi Ishisaka

KUOW Seattle Now, May 27, 2020, Covid, racism, and you

Gee and Ursula Show, April 14, 2020, Racial disparities and coronavirus

Gee and Ursula Show, March 31, 2020, Discussing who could be left behind with coronavirus

KUOW Seattle Now Podcast, Feb. 13, 2020, “Yellow Peril and the Coronavirus”

Public News Service, Feb. 13, 2020, “Racism against Asian Americans and coronavirus”

International Examiner, Dec. 17, 2019, “A conversation with Naomi Ishisaka”

KING-5 New Day Northwest, Oct. 30, 2019, “Naomi Ishisaka is putting a spotlight on social justice”

Media Citations

Richard Wexler, NCCPR Blog, April 28, 2020, “Flawed system, flawed journalism”

“Fortunately, Ishisaka was. She wrote:

Poverty should not be punished with the lasting psychological and emotional damage of family separation. In the meantime, a one-size-fits-all visitation policy will not work.”

Amanda Hirsch, Medium, March 30, 2020, “To Be a Leader, Help Just One Person”

“The Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka recently wrote about how coronavirus has sparked an “epidemic of helping.” In it, she shares the story of an Ethiopian American man in Seattle named Yadesa Bojia. …”

Sarah Stuteville, South Seattle Emerald, March 2, 2020, “The personal isn’t just political”

“Assuming, as Naomi Ishisaka at The Seattle Times put it in her recent spot-on column, “You can’t be elected because you aren’t ‘electable,’ you aren’t perceived as electable because nobody like you has ever been elected.”

Antionette Kerr, (Lexington) The Dispatch, March 5, 2020, “Another election, another glass ceiling”

“Naomi Ishisaka, a Seattle Times columnist said it best. The message is, ”‘I am not sexist/racist/homophobic, but I think everyone else is’ attitude can create a fait accompli for those trying to break the most persistent glass ceiling.”