Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University. She recently moved to California after a decade in Japan, where she worked as a business and technology reporter for The Associated Press and was part of its award-winning team that covered the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. She is a member of the national board of the Asian American Journalists Association, and is passionate about social media and the evolution of storytelling on emerging platforms. She studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, which led her to political reporting at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Waseda University and has also written for The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Dow Jones Newswires.