Kei Tsukamaki (she/her) is in her 13th year teaching Japanese in Washington State. She has served as President of the Washington Association of Teachers of Japanese and currently serves as Department Chair in her building and is a member of her district’s Japanese Curriculum Writing Team.
She was nominated by the Washington Association of Teachers of Japanese (WATJ) board in both 2021 and 2022 and was subsequently selected as the recipient of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) 2022 Outstanding Teacher Award in the K-12 category.
Kei is the 2024 PNCFL Teacher of the Year and the 2023 Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) Teacher of the Year.