Executive Director

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC)

244 South San Pedro Street, #505
Los Angeles, CA 90012

TEL: (213) 628-2725
FAX: (213) 617-8576

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• ART, ART HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
  arts exchange; performing arts; presenting the performing arts
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  arts policy; multi-cultural arts policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  cultural exchange programs; cultural institutions; intercultural communications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vice President, Director of Operations, Western States Arts Foundation, 1979-81; Deputy Director, Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1974-79; Recreation Supervisor, Arizona Job Colleges, Inc., 1972-74; VISTA Volunteer, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969-72.

IN JAPAN: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"An American Dialogue," The Report of the National Task Force on Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts (1989); "Our Many Voices: A New Composition," The 2000 Partnership (1991); "Cultural Democracy," Public Money and the Muse (ed. Benedict) (W.W. Norton & Company, 1991); "Asian American Arts in the Year 2020: Arts Policy," The State of Asian Pacific Americans: A Public Policy Report (UCLA Asian American Studies Center).