STAFF & Contact
Mac Gill
Project Manager
Mac grew up in Wisconsin and holds a BFA in Theatre & Drama and a BFA in Japanese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MLIS in Library & Information Sciences, an MFA in Literary Translation and a graduate certificate in digital humanities from the University of Iowa and spent a year of intensive Japanese study with the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies.
Mac spent two years on the JET Program as a Coordinator for International Relations in Nahari, Kōchi Prefecture, working with the local senior center, assisting with town events, visiting schools, and planting rice.
Mac’s other professional experience includes freelance translation, the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and the Nahari Public Library.
Yuka Yokoyama
Curator
Yuka is a curator, researcher, and grant writer at the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York. Her work focuses on preserving and interpreting Japanese and Japanese American histories through exhibitions, oral histories, and public programming. With experience in both Japan and the United States, she develops projects that emphasize collaboration, cultural understanding, and historical care.
Her past work includes the exhibition Shofuso and Modernism, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. She co-authored the accompanying book Uncrating the Japanese House and contributed to the PBS documentary A House in the Garden. Trained in museum studies and art history, she approaches curatorial practice as a form of cross-cultural storytelling rooted in research and cultural sensitivity.
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