Steffen Receives Coveted National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

(June 6, 2024)

Southern Minn

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is pleased to announce that Kelly Steffen, a teacher at Vinton-Shellsburg High School in Vinton, Iowa, has been accepted to participate in its workshop for educators sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration will teach educators about the conditions that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, at Heart Mountain, Wyo., and nine other camps around the country.