Sach Takayasu is an independent oral history scholar. Her clients have included The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, New York University, Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in NY, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She also serves on the Diversity Committee for the Oral History Association.
As a Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy, she created and taught a course that prepared students for the professional world. During her tenure as the President and CEO of a new national chamber of commerce for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, she raised the visibility of this business community with the Obama Administration and Congressional leaders. Her immigration proposal to President Obama made headline news. She was one of 19 business leaders briefed by President Obama, US Trade Representative Froman, and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Under her leadership, this business community published its first ever Legislative Agenda, hosted many community roundtables at the White House and established official partnerships with key government offices and regional chambers of commerce. Prior to her work in DC, she developed new businesses from emerging technologies at IBM.
She has served on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Council for Underserved Communities and the United Nations Population Funds’ Strategic Innovation Advisory Board. She also serves on her alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University's Board of Advisors for the Dean of Dietrich College.
