200 Walk participants met in front of Union Station for the annual Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism, an event that reflects on the events of the 1885 Tacoma Method and the expulsion of the Chinese community from Tacoma, Washington. The event is a symbolic march from Union Station to Tacoma’s Chinese Reconciliation Park reversing the direction of the historic expulsion.

Master of Ceremony: Greg Youtz
Vice President, Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation

Keynote Speakers:
Aimee Khuu
Executive Director of Tacoma Community House
Lyle Quasim
Co-Chair of the Tacoma–Pierce County Black Collective
Board Director of the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

Performers from the Seattle Chinese Orchestra:
Ming Chiem, Janelle Chiou and Ting Ting Chang