She is currently serving as acting chair of the Journalism Department. Yumi is a graduate of Journalism and International Relations from USC in 1990. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from USF in 2007. She was a reporter and editor at various publications, including the Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle. In 2008, she published Cablinasian, a literary essay exploring multiracial identity in The Truth about the Fact, an international journal at Loyola Marymount College. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Yumi is an “Army brat” who moved around the world until she was 18. She now calls the Bay Area her home.