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Yoriko Kishimoto ’77

Yoriko Kishimoto '77, the first Asian to be elected to the Palo Alto City Council, was one of only eight Asian Pacific American elected officials nationwide selected to participate in the Asian Pacific Institute for Congressional Studies, a nonpartisan program in Washington, D.C. She has a long record of community involvement and grassroots organizing, as well as business experience in the technology field. She earned her M.B.A. from Stanford and is the founder and president of an international consulting business and author of The Third Century: America's Resurgence in the Asian Era. Kishimoto lives in Palo Alto with her husband and two daughters.
Yoriko Kishimoto ’77, the first Asian to be elected to the Palo Alto City Council, was one of only eight Asian Pacific American elected officials nationwide selected to participate in the Asian Pacific Institute for Congressional Studies, a nonpartisan program in Washington, D.C. She has a long record of community involvement and grassroots organizing, as well as business experience in the technology field. She earned her M.B.A. from Stanford and is the founder and president of an international consulting business and author of The Third Century: America’s Resurgence in the Asian Era. Kishimoto lives in Palo Alto with her husband and two daughters.