Jan Yanehiro, Moderator
Broadcast Journalist and Author , Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream
Jan Yanehiro is an Emmy Award winning Broadcast Journalist who helped pioneer the magazine format on television as co-host of Evening Magazine, a nightly program in San Francisco that ran for 15 years on
CBS-5. She has hosted 8 documentaries on the incarceration and redress of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Jan has won multiple awards including the Girl Scout’s Woman of Distinction Award, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. She is the Chair of Kristi Yamaguchi’s Always Dream Legacy Circle; a board member of The San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Association and is the former Board Chair of The Representation Project, an organization focused on gender equality.
She is the co-author of 4 books, her latest book is titled, “This Is Not The Life I Ordered…60 Ways To Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down.” Jan has 3 adult children and is the proud
grandmother of 2—so far.