Jon Funabiki is the newest member of our board. Mr. Funabiki is Professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University, where he teaches and is developing a new center on the community-building potential of news media that serve regional, ethnic, cultural and other communities of shared interest.  Previously, Mr. Funabiki spent 11 years as the Deputy Director of the Media, Arts and Culture (MAC) Unit of the Ford Foundation in New York, where he led grant programs to promote ethics, credibility and diversity in journalism; social justice journalism; and the ethnic and independent news media. Mr. Funabiki is the former founding Director of San Francisco State University’s Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and a former journalist with The San Diego Union, where he specialized in U.S.-Asia political and economic affairs. Mr. Funabiki is a graduate of San Francisco State University. He was awarded the John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University; the Jefferson Fellowship at the East-West Center of Honolulu; and a National Endowment for the Humanities Professional Summer Fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara.