Our panel examines how the Okinawa Memories Initiative, Reckoning with Redress, and Watsonville is in the Heart public history projects amplify the voices of marginalized groups and negotiate the ethics and processes of conducting public histories with vulnerable groups. The projects address the legacy of the Battle of Okinawa, the US Occupation of the Ryukyus, the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, and Filipino American settler-migration and labor experiences in the Pajaro Valley. We will discuss strategies for building and sustaining collaborative public history projects alongside diasporic Okinawan, Japanese American, and Filipino American communities that engage students in community-based experiential learning.