Jan Yanehiro

Jan Yanehiro is a Japanese broadcast journalist. [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ] [ [http://goldsea.com/Personalities2/Airforce/airforce6.html BROADCAST PIONEER: JAN YANEHIRO] ]

Personal life

She earned a journalism degree from California State University, Fresno in 1970. [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]

She is married to Robert Eves, the President of Venture Corporation, with whom she has five children (Jaclyn, Jenna, J.B., Meredith and Christopher). [ [http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_ait/article/0,,hgtv_3814_1388257,00.html Steve Walker and Jan Yanehiro] ] [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]

Is also the Director of Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Television career

She co-hosted "Evening Magazine" which aired on San Francisco's KPIX (Channel 5) from 1976 to 1991. [cite news
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] She is a co-executive producer of "Pacific Fusion", a television magazine program featuring Asian American lifestyle, which airs on KRON, [cite news
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] and host of HGTV's "Appraise It!" [ [http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_ait/article/0,,hgtv_3814_1388257,00.html Steve Walker and Jan Yanehiro] ] She has also hosted the documentary "Forced Out" on the Japanese American experience during World War II. [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]

Other business and community activities

She is the President or Jan Yanehiro, Inc., a Partner of Fair Advantage, the Director of the Bank of Marin, a Board Member or Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream Foundation, a Board Member of the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco, a Board Member of the National Board of Visitors at California State University, Fresno, and a Member of the Asian American Journalists Association, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]

Achievements

She has received several Emmys for her work, [ [http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_ait/article/0,,hgtv_3814_1388257,00.html Steve Walker and Jan Yanehiro] ] received the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award from the United Nations of San Francisco, was inducted into the Academy of Television and Radio Hall of Fame in New York City, was a Silver Circle Inductee of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2003, was recognized as a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and honored as an Outstanding Alumnus by California State University, Fresno. [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]

Books (as co-author)

*"Having a Baby" (1984) [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]
*"After Having a Baby" (1988) [ [http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/alumni/yanehiro.shtml Jan Yanehiro - Media and Marketing Strategic Planner] ]
*"This Is Not The Life I Ordered" (2007)

References

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