Background
Hirano-Nakanishi, Marsha Joyce was born on October 10, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Ben Bin and Alice Chiyeko (Korenaga) Hirano.
Hirano-Nakanishi, Marsha Joyce was born on October 10, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Ben Bin and Alice Chiyeko (Korenaga) Hirano.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Stanford University, 1971; Doctor of Education in Policy Analysis, Harvard University, 1981.
Teacher, Salinas (California) Unified School District, 1972;
research associate, Education Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts, 1973-1974;
co-editor-in-chief, Harvard Ednl. Review, Cambridge, 1974-1975;
site coordinator, CUNY Graduate Center and Institute for Responsive Education International Proj, Los Angeles, 1977-1979;
research manager, National Center Bilingual Research, Los Alamitos, California, 1981-1984;
associate director, California State University, Los Angeles, 1984-1986;
director institutional research, California State University, Northridge, 1986-1989;
director analytic studies, California State University, since 1989. Bar examiner California State Bar, System Office communications of Bar Examiners, San Francisco, 1988-1991.
Commissioner California State Bar, Commision on Judicial Nominees' Evaluation, San Francisco, since 1991. Commissioner Los Angeles City Commision on the Status of Women, since 1991. Survey consultant National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, since 1985.
Policy analysis consultant Childhood and Government Project, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-1977, Education Reform Project, Los Angeles, 1976.
Center Los Angeles chair Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni School Committee, since 1990. Board directors Young Women’s Christian Association of Los Angeles, 1985-1989. Member corporation research committee United Way, Los Angeles, since 1986.
Member Asian Pacific Women's Network (scholarship committee chair 1989-1990), College Board Research and Development Council, Harvard Graduate School Educational Alumni Association (board directors since 1989), American Educational Research Association (division program chair 1991).
Married Don Toshiaki Nakanishi, December 28, 1974. 1 child, Thomas.