Anthony Al-Jamie is Chair of California Sister Cities. He is an interculturally-minded journalist, educational innovator, and nonprofit professional, who lived and worked in Japan for some 20 years. During his two decades in Japan, he successfully established a number of language schools in Saitama and Tokyo prefectures. Through these schools, he ran an English language program for members of the Advanced and Basic Officers Courses at the Japan Self Defense Force Training Grounds in Asaka, Saitama for over a decade. Anthony served as an International Advisory Council Member to the Governor of Saitama, Japan, and was the only non-Japanese Member of the Wako-shi Rotary Club. He is an accredited journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of the Tokyo Journal, Japan’s oldest English magazine. A Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) with vast experience in the management of nonprofit organizations, he is Chair of California Sister Cities, President of the Japan-United States Sister City Association, President of Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter, President of KIF USA, current member and former Vice-Chair of the Los Angeles-Nagoya Sister Cities Affiliation, Commissioner and Chair of the Anaheim Sister City Commission, Founding Chair of the California Youth Leadership Summit and the California Young Artists Expo, and a member of the Japan America Society of Southern California.