The Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) is an international community history and dialogue project focusing on Okinawa and all the ways that its people, culture, and crises are central to understanding the world today.

For over a decade, OMI has been driven by a spirited collaboration of college students, researchers, oral historians, and artists based at UC Santa Cruz with partnerships with Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State East Bay, and the University of The Ryukyus.