Yukari Iwatani Kane is a founder and CEO of Prison Journalism Project. She is an author, educator and veteran journalist with 20 years of experience and was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Her book Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs was a best-seller, translated into seven languages. She has taught at Northwestern University and UC Berkeley as well as at San Quentin State Prison, where she developed a curriculum for prison journalism. Yukari is an alum of the INN Emerging Leaders Council and Reynolds Journalism Institute and is currently a fellow in the 2024 CUNY Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership. She is also a member of News Literacy Project’s advisory council and an advisor for San Quentin News and The Endeavor, a prison newspaper at Everglades Correctional Institution in Florida.