About the Company

MAYUMI MARUYAMA is a former CNN journalist with thirteen years of experience in the broadcast news industry. She developed her unique cultural perspective in childhood, as the child of first-generation Japanese American immigrants who divided their time between Japan and Michigan. Discovering her passion for documentary filmmaking in high school, she pursued film studies at university, resulting in two documentary shorts delving into her father’s death. Landing her first job in 2010 at NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation in Los Angeles, she worked in the field, reporting on major U.S. news stories including two U.S. presidential elections, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Aurora movie theater shooting, and the legalization of same-sex marriage.

In 2017, Mayumi joined the Peace Corps in Ukraine, where she learned Russian and supported community development efforts in Odessa. Following her two-year service, she returned to journalism, working at CNN from 2019 to 2024 as a producer and international desk researcher, first at their Atlanta headquarters, and later bolstering their coverage of Asia in Hong Kong, where she covered dozens of significant events, including North Korea’s growing relations with Russia and the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.