Jan Yanehiro

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Jan Yanehiro is a Hawaiian broadcast journalist.^[1]^[2]

1 Personal life
2 Television career
3 Other business and community activities
4 Achievements
5 Books (as co-author)
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Personal life

She earned a journalism degree from California State University, Fresno in 1970.^[3]

She is married to Robert Eves, the President of Venture Corporation, with whom she has five children (Jaclyn, Jenna, J.B., Meredith and Christopher).^[4]^[5]

[edit] Television career

She co-hosted Evening Magazine which aired on San Francisco's KPIX (Channel 5) from 1976 to 1991.^[6] She is a co-executive producer of Pacific Fusion, a television magazine program featuring Asian American lifestyle, which airs on KRON,^[7] and host of HGTV's Appraise It!^[8] She has also hosted the documentary Forced Out on the Japanese American experience during World War II.^[9]

[edit] 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.^[10]

[edit] Achievements

She has received several Emmys for her work,^[11] 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.^[12]