Yuriko Anton

Yuriko Anton is in her first term on the board, joining in August 2022. She has extensive non-profit experience serving on 7 boards (La Jolla Country Day School, American Repertory Theater, Japan Society of Boston, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Maria Mitchell Association and Beacon Hill Nursery School) for over 25 years and has a background in international banking at Baring Securities and S.G. Warburg & Co. (in Japan) and a small business startup in London, in antique English furniture and decorative arts. She was born and raised in Tokyo and Honolulu and is bicultural, biracial and bilingual (Japanese) and lived around the globe. Yuriko’s board skills include both short and long-term strategic planning, fund-raising/donor cultivation in campaigns and annual giving, event planning and more recently work in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice space in independent schools. She holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from UCLA, a Decorative Arts Certificate from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, England and Poetry Studies at the Harvard Extension School in Cambridge, MA.