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Japan America Society of West Michigan Board Elects New Executive Director22 January 2006
The Japan America Society of West Michigan (JASWM) Board of Directors has elected Dennis D Donahue to the position of Executive Director, the Society announced today.
Donahue, a 30-year U.S. Foreign Service veteran, has served in various capacities with the U.S. Information Agency, managing U.S. Embassy public affairs, primarily with foreign non-governmental entities (media, universities, and cultural-civic leaders), as well as administering U.S. cultural educational and professional exchange programs in host countries.
His Foreign Service career included assignments at the U.S. Embassies in Tokyo, Singapore, Brasilia (Brazil), Wellington (New Zealand), Saigon (Viet Nam), and New Delhi. His most recent position was Media Program Coordinator at the East-West Center, a Honolulu, Hawaii based research and education center where he managed professional development programs for mid- to senior- level journalists from Asia, the Pacific, and the U.S.
Jan Burland, Chairman of the JASWM, said the Society's Board had no difficulty in confirming his appointment and were pleased the timing of his move to West Michigan corresponded with the organization's need to replace outgoing Executive Director Tracy Miller-Furuichi, who took a position with a Japanese company in Battle Creek.
"We are pleased to have someone with Dennis Donahue's extensive foreign service, especially in Japan, along with his Asian cultural background as our new Executive Director and look forward to having him lead us to the next level as we continue the society's mission of building stronger relationships between the American and Japanese communities in Michigan," said Burland.
Donahue assumes the role of Executive Director immediately.
The Japan America Society of West Michigan is one of 40 independent private, non-profit, and non-partisan organizations in the United States that offers educational, cultural and business programs about Japan and U.S.-Japan relations to the general public in the West and Mid-Michigan regions.
For more information about the JASWM, visit our web site at http://www.us-japan.org/jaswm/
Biography
Dennis D. Donahue
Executive Director
Dennis D. Donahue is Executive Director of the Japan America Society of West Michigan (JASWM). The Society promotes cultural, business, educational and social exchange for the development of both Japanese and American communities in Lansing, Battle Creek, Coldwater, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and other cities in the area. It was established in 1999 in Battle Creek and has been active since then sponsoring art exhibitions, concerts, film series, speaker programs, school outreach, golf outings and business programs around West Michigan.
Prior to joining JASWM, Mr. Donahue was coordinator for six years of the East-West Center Media Program, responsible for professional exchanges for journalists from Asia, Pacific and United States. The East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, is a not-for-profit education and research institution (think tank) established by the United States Congress in 1960 to "promote better relations and understanding between the United States and the nations of Asia and the Pacific."
Mr. Donahue came to the East-West Center in 1999 from a thirty-year career as a United States Foreign Service Officer with the United States Information Agency (USIA). He served in American embassies in Brazil (Cultural Attache), Singapore (Counselor for Public Affairs and Director of the U.S. Information Service-USIS), Japan (Program Officer), New Zealand (Cultural Attache), Vietnam (Publications Officer) and India (Assistant Publications Officer). He also was Public Diplomacy Advisor to the United States Pacific Command in Hawaii and worked in the Voice of America and in USIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Donahue was a reporter for two metropolitan dailies, The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis Times. He also worked for groups of suburban weekly newspapers in Indianapolis and Milwaukee.
Mr. Donahue received his M.A. in International Communication from American University, Washington, D.C. (1980) and his B.A. in English from Marian College, Indianapolis, Indiana (1962).
Source: prnewswire
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