About Me

I grew up in Tokyo as a nationally competitive figure skater and a voice actor for NHK's animated children's programming. I moved to the United States, graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, and studied psycholinguistics and the business of media at NYU. I spent years working in entertainment, agencies, startups, hospitality, and founder-led businesses before building two of my own.

Every chapter, however different it looks on paper, has been about the same thing:
how people connect, how stories land, and what it takes to make an audience feel something.

That's the lens I bring to marketing strategy.

Through Media Kamo, I work with founder-led brands and public-facing experts who have strong work but aren't communicating it as effectively as they could. My clients have included keynote speakers, authors, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and premium consumer brands. The work spans launch strategy, ghostwriting, brand positioning, press materials, newsletters, event marketing, and full marketing direction — always built around real business goals, never around content for its own sake.

I was the first marketing hire at Motorenn, a luxury automotive startup, where I helped lead the brand through a 2.5× revenue growth period and supported the fundraising process that secured $800K in pre-seed funding. I've helped an author launch her first book to Amazon bestseller status. I've helped a speaker collective generate $100K+ in revenue through six months of strategic and operational partnership.

My deepest passion is the food, beverage, and hospitality space: an industry I've worked in hands-on, and one where my background brings something specific. As a bilingual Japanese-American marketing strategist with WSET Level 3 in Wines (Distinction) and Certified Sake Professional credentials, I bring rare cultural and technical fluency to brands working in wine, sake, and broader hospitality — including those bridging American and Japanese markets.

As a sommelier, I’ve been quoted in Wine Enthusiast, Forbes, Delish, Real Simple, Chowhound, and Food Republic.

I'm also the founder of Merobebe, a wine and culture platform built around elevating women through the world of wine with curated events, editorial, and community for women.

I do my best work when something real is on the line:
a brand that needs sharper positioning, a launch that needs to land, a message that needs to finally do justice to the work behind it.

If that sounds like where you are, I'd love to talk.

When I'm not working, I'm opening a bottle of something good with my husband, spoiling my cats, or doing both simultaneously.