Board of Director

Naoko Taniguchi, Honorary Board Member Naoko Taniguchi has become the board of director of NY de Volunteer in 2010. She is also a chairperson of NPO, Palette, an executive director of Palette International Japan, a director of Japan League on Intellectual Disabilities, a vise chairperson of Social Innovation Japan. She graduated Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, majored English Literature in 1965. With the notable contributions for disabilities, she was awarded by Yamato Welfare Foundation (2003) and won Kazuo Itoga prize (2006). She has been a member of Social Business Initiatives committee in Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and New Social welfare in Cabinet Office. She has written Fukushini Hassou no Tenkan wo! “Breakthrough of the Social Welfare Conceptions!”

Kazumi Terada, Co-founder and President, Board Member, Marketing Committee Chair Kazumi Terada is the co-founder of NY de Volunteer. She was also the key facilitator for the first 9/11 Memorial Floating Lantern Ceremony, which has been held annually since 2002. She was born in Japan, grew up in Texas, and has been living in New York City since 1992. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design, with a degree in architecture. Most of her career has been in the internet industry, working for web agencies, global e-commerce sites, and internet advertising agencies. She was the president and co-founder of Fifth Line Group, LLC, a visual communication company, between 2004-2008. She is currently a bilingual Japanese/English consultant and design researcher at Panasonic Design Center of America. She has also been a treasurer and board member of another 501(c)3 organization, Mahayogi Yoga Mission, since 2000.

Paul Golin, Board Member, Fundraising Committee Chair Paul Golin has volunteered with NY de Volunteer since 2002 and joined its board of directors in 2010. He is associate executive director of the Jewish Outreach Institute, a national, independent, non-profit organization reaching out to unaffiliated Jewish families with an emphasis on engaging intermarried households and helping the organized Jewish community better welcome them in. Paul is a frequent writer and speaker on Jewish outreach and co-authored with Rabbi Kerry Olitzky the books 20 Things for Grandparents of Interfaith Grandchildren To Do (And Not Do) To Nurture Jewish Identity In Their Grandchildren (2007) and How To Raise Jewish Children…Even When You’re Not Jewish Yourself (2010). He majored in Communications and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Kenichi Takahashi, Board Member, Finance Committee Chair Kenichi Takahashi is a financial analyst and certified public accountant in the United States. He worked for major accounting firms, Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young. Currently, he works for an investment company in New York. He oversees finance and accounting functions of the organization.

Taka Juba, Board Member, Planning Committee Chair Takahisa Juba began volunteering with NYdV in 2006 at the first "Explore Japanese Culture After School Program" in New York. Since then he has become the primary teacher of the program. Because of his dedication and commitment to the program and organization he became a board member this year. With his work in international business currently running his own importing and distribution company and previously heading a sourcing operation in Hong Kong for one of largest seasonal lighting companies and working in marketing for Panasonic, he brings over 20 years of practical and successful business and international experience. He graduated with honors in International Relations and Japanese from Claremont McKenna College.

Andrew Meehan, Board Member Andrew Meehan is the principal of a boutique consultancy he founded in 2002 that specializes in American litigation support, including translation, interpretation, and non-legal advisory services. He was worked for a number of major law firms, has been admitted as an expert witness on Japanese language in a number of federal courts, and has worked on a number of large cases including the Sumitomo Copper Trader Case, the Cease and Desist on Daiwa Bank and Yamaichi Securities in the US, and aviation reinsurance cases related to 9/11.