Personal life

She earned a journalism degree from California State University, Fresno in 1970.
She is the Director of Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University

Academy of Art University

The Academy of Art University , a for-profit university owned by the Stephens Institute, was founded in San Francisco, California in 1929 by Richard S. Stephens...

 in San Francisco.

Television career

She co-hosted Evening Magazine

Evening Magazine

Evening Magazine is the name of various news and entertainment style local television shows in different markets.-The original concept:...

which aired on San Francisco's KPIX (Channel 5) from 1976 to 1991. She is a co-executive producer of Pacific Fusion, a television magazine program featuring Asian American lifestyle, which airs on KRON, and host of HGTV's Appraise It! She has also hosted the documentary Forced Out on the Japanese American experience during World War II.

Other business and community activities

She is the President of 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.

Achievements

She has received several Emmys for her work, 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.

Books (as co-author)

• Having a Baby (1984)
• After Having a Baby (1988)
• This Is Not The Life I Ordered
  This Is Not the Life I Ordered
  This Is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down is a collaborative non-fiction inspirational self-help book written by Deborah Collins Stephens, Michealene Cristini Risley, Jackie Speier, and Jan Yanehiro. The book was first published in a...
  
  (2007)

External links

• Jan Yanehiro Filmography