I started my career in 1993 as the founding director of the Japan office of an American foundation dedicated to children and youth development. Through that job, I was active in the non-profit sector in Japan, which was transformed after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. As the New Millennium began, I started working in the New York headquarters of UNFPA and then UNICEF, to promote women and children’s health and rights. With the birth of my own child, I returned to the non-profit sector, working as a consultant in advocacy and resource mobilization, mainly in the global health field, primarily in HIV/AIDS and  vaccine development. Providing a range of services including translation and interpretation, my goal is to be of assistance to non-profits dedicated to solving the world’s problems on both sides of the Pacific.

Born in Tokyo, I spent my middle school years in the Philippines, and high school in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Since then, I have been back and forth between Japan and the U.S., currently living in the suburbs of New York. I enjoy watching sports, including soccer and football, but my true love is baseball, having been heavily influenced by my husband, who is a die-hard Red Sox fan. When I am not binging on Korean dramas which I discovered