Allison Murata

Allison Murata serves as Program Manager at the U.S.-Japan Council (USJC) and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has been with the organization since 2012 and currently oversees key initiatives including the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP), the U40 Summit, the Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD), and the Advanced Leaders Collective (ALC).

Prior to joining USJC, Allison served as Medical Education Coordinator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and as Program Coordinator for educational programs at the Japan-America Society of Hawaii. Her experience also includes work with the Hawaii Herald, MAVIN Foundation’s Community Mixed Race Action Plan in Seattle, and service as a Legislative Aide to Hawaii State Representative Barbara Marumoto. She is a 2017 Kizuna Board Fellow.

Allison holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from Occidental College, where she was a Trustee Scholar. She spent her junior year abroad at Waseda University in Tokyo and later returned to Japan to teach English. She was born and raised in Honolulu.