Sharon Maeda

Sharon Maeda came out of retirement to support the Emerald as interim managing editor and planning director until 2022. She will continue to write as she finds more community stories that need to be shared. As a public school teacher, she found media as a way to empower students and ended up with a long media career. She managed the Pacifica Radio network (Los Angeles) as well as Seattle community radio stations KRAB-FM and KVRU-FM.