Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was eighty years old when her first book was published in April 2005. With her memoir, Looking Like the Enemy, Gruenewald has broken her silence as a Nisei (second generation Japanese American) who was imprisoned in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

After being released from her last Japanese-American internment camp, Mary became a registered nurse, and worked as an RN for more than a quarter of a century. She established the Consulting Nurse Service within the Group Health Cooperative in 1971, which has become a national model for numerous health care providers. In 2002, she was a medical delegate representing seniors on behalf of Medicare Plus Choice. At that meeting, Mary was selected along with ten other delegates to advise President George W. Bush on health care issues.