Rick Noguchi is a writer born in Los Angeles and raised in Culver City. He graduated from Arizona State University with a Master’s of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. He also holds a Master’s of Business administration from Pepperdine University, a Bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach in English, and a minor in American Indian studies. He serves as a Senor Program Officer in the Arts at the James Irvine Foundation, and is a national award winning writer wining the 1994 Pearl Edition Prize for “The Wave He Caught”. Rick Noguchi also co-wrote “Flowers from Marko”, a children’s book, and served in a variety of programming, fundraising, and management position with the Arizona Humanities Council, the Japanese American National Museum, the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and the UCLA Anderson School of Management.