Harrison Chapman is the chair of the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Program, a position he has held since 2018 after spending a year on the Operations Council. Born and raised in Sausalito, Harrison has been involved with the program for over 16 years, since his first visit to Sakaide as a delegate in the summer of 2003. Since then, he has returned to Shikoku multiple times, with and without the program, to strengthen his bonds with Sakaide and its residents. Immediately after graduating from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico with a BA in film studies in 2008, Harrison went to teach English in Tokyo for two years in order to wait-out the world financial crisis. This time allowed him to further explore and study Japanese culture, language, and history. Now, Harrison works for a Bay Area-based advertising agency as a copywriter, video editor, and creative consultant and has won several awards for his editing and writing work for Honda. In his free time, Harrison travels to politically interesting places in the world, from Palestine’s West Bank to Chernobyl in Ukraine to volunteering with the Kachin Independence Organization in Myanmar, he’s even appeared in a few big budget Bollywood films.