Personnel

Executive Director/CEO - Lon Saavedra

Event Manager - Kyongmi Ader
Bookkeeper – Chiharu Yabe

Gift Store - Kayoko Ono, Chiharu Yabe, Laurie Cai

Japanese Garden Specialist - Jacob Kellner
Assistant Gardener - Jesus Chiprez, Daniel Diaz

Maintenance & Cleaning - Sandra Velaquez

Event Staff - Jesus Mestas, Marissa Silva, Richard Ngo, Gerardo Hinojosa, Jarell Molina

Volunteers

Many volunteers assist as Docents, providing tours of the gardens for visitors. Others help in the Gardens, the Gift Shop, or the office. Many special projects also benefit from volunteer assistance. For example, in the Gardens, various wood and bamboo substructures such as the bridges, the wooden lamp posts around the pond, the well, the main gate, and the fences that lead up to the gardens have been restored with the help of volunteers like Bruce Heister and Jim Sugai.

Japan Supporting Committee:  Hiro Matsunami, Miki Shimabe, Dr. Marty Matsuo, Keiichi Fujii, Naoko Hall, Yuki Hashimoto, Kohei Hirano, Nozomi Kong, Chiharu Matsunami, Tazu Matsuo, Kouraku Mikami, Tomomi Motoyama, Kaori Nakayama, Kei Noguchi, Nobuko Self, Mitsutaka Shimabe, Atsuomi Shimabe, Mimi Sueyoshi Myles, Mima Suwa, Mark Yamamoto

Cultural programs: Kathy Toy, John Larissou, Marty Matsuo, John Tauchi, Elaine Salter, Miki Shimabe

Docents:  John Tauchi, Don Morgan, Michiko Kelly, Deborah Lecover, and June Kanazawa.

Gardens: Bruce Heister, Jim Sugai, Arnold Cornez and others