Beth Fujinuma

Beth grew up in Illinois, USA where she helped start XA on her university campus while training to be a teacher. After moving to Wisconsin, USA she met her husband Ryosuke and she later served on staff with XA in Madison, Wisconsin before they moved to Minnesota, USA and worked primarily with Japanese students. Ryosuke’s university job then took them to Brisbane, Australia where Beth continued working with university students. They now live at ICU here in Tokyo where Ryo teaches environmental science and Beth volunteers with XA and tutors English. Their son Kazuo is a creative teenager.