BIOGRAPHY
Lance Izumi, JD, Sacramento
Mr. Izumi has also served as a consultant on welfare reform to the California Department of Social Services, a consultant onjuvenile crime to the Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and as co-chair of the governor's competitiveness task force onjuvenile justice educationreform. His articles have been published in the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Asian American Policy Review, National Review, Wall Street Journal Europe, Sunday Times (of London), Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Investor's Business Daily, California Journal, Los Angeles Daily News, San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, Sacramento Bee, and many other publications. Mr. Izumi is a regular contributor to the "Perspectives" opinion series on KQED-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco.
Prior to entering the think-tank world, Mr. Izumi served as chief speechwriter for California Governor George Deukmejian. He alsoserved in the Reagan administration as speechwriter to United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
Mr. Izumi received his M.A. in political science from the University of California at Davis and his J.D. from the University ofSouthern California Law Center. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
