Hi there, Gary here, thanks for stopping by my website.
As you can see, not much going on here. I’m hoping to fix this up soon. In the meantime, here’s a little bit more about me.
I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I started Momomedia, a web design consultancy dedicated to creating smart and sustainable websites for small businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions.
Right now, I’m working with the Nichi Bei Foundation to develop a new website that will serve as a community news hub for Japanese Americans.
I’ve recently completed website redesigns for Many Lives Chinese Medicine, 415 Games, and Stanford University’s African & African American Studies program.
Previously, I worked full time as the online communications administrator for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for over eight years. Now, I serve as part-time Web Producer with them.
I was born and raised in Fresno, CA, where I spent my summers playing baseball, mowing lawns, and fishing for trout.
After graduating from high school, I wanted live closer to the beach so I went to college in San Diego to study engineering. But reading Kafka and Conrad led me to switch my major to philosophy. Believe it or not, this was a decision based on reason and practicality.
In college, I started playing trumpet in a reggae band called the Cardiff Reefers. After graduating, we hit the road full time, playing over 1300 shows across the U.S., Canada and even Tahiti. We recorded two CDs — Alternate Routes and Reefer Madness — that occasionally got radio airplay but didn’t make us rich. Recently, I started a Facebook page for the band that includes some music and videos.
After nine years and 1300 shows, I decided to get off the road and start graduate school in San Francisco. After I got my masters degree in Ethnic Studies, I taught Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco for three years.
During this time, I also worked at The National Japanese American Historical Society, where I wrote and co-directed an exhibit on Japanese American baseball history called Diamonds in the Rough. It has been showcased in many venues, including The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, and the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo, Japan. I wrote a short essay I’ve written on the subject called, “A Century of Japanese American Baseball.”
You may have noticed, I’m a bit of a baseball fan. When I had some free time, I used to write a baseball column called Inside Pitch for the Nichi Bei Times. Here’s a piece I wrote on the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
If you are really bored and have nothing better to do, take a look at the list of 25 random things about me that I created a while ago.
Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to drop me a line, or find me on Facebook or LinkedIn.
