Janice Mirikitani was a gift to San Francisco. She was a poet and a dancer, an educator and an activist. Mirikitani had been a radiant fixture in the city for nearly six decades when she died of cancer on July 29. She was 80 years old.
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Janice Mirikitani was a gift to San Francisco. She was a poet and a dancer, an educator and an activist. Mirikitani had been a radiant fixture in the city for nearly six decades when she died of cancer on July 29. She was 80 years old.