Yoshiko Harden currently serves as the Vice President for Diversity/Chief Diversity Officer, in the Office of Equity and Pluralism at Bellevue College. As vice president, she provides leadership in the development, coordination, and implementation of programs that promote and integrate equity and inclusion at the college.
She was formerly the director of multicultural services and student development at Highline Community College. As an educator and practitioner, she believes that building human capacity to create institutional change is most successful when approached from both individual and institutional angles. Her overarching goal is to help create for students the college experience she always wanted but never received.
Yoshiko Harden received her undergraduate degree in Communications and Women’s Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She then earned her master’s degree in Education from Seattle University in Student Development Administration. She has over ten years of experience working in student affairs and program development, beginning programs like SCORE (Students of Color Opting to Reach Excellence) and an Inter-Cultural Center at Highline.
