Bio Highlights

- 24-year Marin resident, mother of two college-aged children

- 15 years of classroom teaching and public education budget experience

- 12 years administrative experience as Vice President for University Advancement at California State University Sacramento and Associate Vice President of Advancement and Development at San Francisco State University

- State of California appointee, Lt. Governor's Commission for One California and the State Librarian's Civil Liberties and Public Education Program

- Master's degree in Educational Administration, University of San Francisco

Carole Hayashino, Trustee
Marin Community College District Board

Professional

Carole Hayashino was appointed Vice President for University Advancement at California State University Sacramento in 2004 to oversee public affairs, alumni relations and university development. Carole is also the Corporate Secretary to The University Foundation at Sacramento State and member of its Board of Directors.

Prior to Sacramento State, Carole was the Associate Vice President for University Development at San Francisco State. Carole helped to establish the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University in the 1970s and was a lecturer in the Asian American Studies Department.

In the 1980s, Carole was the Associate Director of the National Japanese American Citizens League and involved in the national legislative effort to obtain an apology and monetary reparations for Americans of Japanese ancestry interned during World War II. Since that time, she has remained active in national and statewide civil rights issues affecting Asian Pacific American community.

Civic Activities

As a resident of Marin County, Carole was appointed by Supervisors to the County's Human Rights Commission from 1996 to 2002. She was elected to the Marin Community College District Board of Trustees in 2003 and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Board. She has been on the Advisory Board to the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program under former State Librarian Kevin Starr and continues to serve as on the board under State Librarian Susan Hildreth.

Awards

For her community work, she has received the Marin County Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award, Special Appreciation Award from the Civil Rights Division of U.S. Department of Justice, Community Ally Award from the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, and Community Leadership Award from the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California.

Education

Carole earned her undergraduate degree at San Francisco State University and a master's degree in educational administration at the University of San Francisco.

Personal

Carole is a third generation American of Japanese ancestry. She was born and raised in Stockton, California. During World War II, Carole's family-grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles-were forcibly removed from their homes in Stockton and interned behind barbed wire in Rohwer, Arkansas. Carole's grandfather was separated from the family and imprisoned in a US Justice Internment Camp in New Mexico. No charges were ever filed against any members of her family, yet they were detained behind barbed wire and armed guards for three years.

Her family suffered immeasurable losses including the lost their home and business; her father never had the opportunity to return to college. As a result of her family's wartime experience, equal access and opportunity to education became important to her and her parents.

In addition to her involvement in the national legislative campaign for redress and reparations for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, Carole worked with the Smithsonian Institute, American History Museum on its bicentennial exhibit, "A More Perfect Union," which documents the Japanese American experience. Her father's artifacts from the Rohwer, Arkansas camp are displayed in the Smithsonian's permanent exhibition.

Carole lives in Mill Valley with her husband, Kyle Tatsumoto. Her son, Kenso is a graduate student at Sacramento State and daughter, Ali attends the University of Hawaii.