Donna Umeki

Donna Umeki was born and raised in Berkeley, California. She’s also lived in are Oakland, CA, and Alameda, CA (where she and Mark presently live).
She attended Berkeley public schools: Longfellow Elementary, Willard Jr High, Berkeley High, UC Berkeley, completed a Bachelors in accounting at Golden Gate University (San Francisco, CA) and received a masters in Adult Education at San Francisco State.
She was employed as a staff accountant in San Francisco, CA, thereafter became self-employed as an accountant, and in the past 10 years, transitioned into overseeing her clients' accounting departments and annual audits, and consulting on personnel, dealing with clients' obligations to outside agencies, internal auditing, licensing & permitting
Donna is semi-retired in her business consulting, working about 15-20 hours a week and (1) given that she likes her work and her clients, and (2) they let her go anywhere and do anything (as long as she stays available) she probably won't fully retire, at least for a while....
Donna’s pre-covid interests include: seeing live theater and the arts, visiting museums, traveling, and flute playing. Because of the pandemic: she’s become an avid fan of SF Giants baseball, cooking, trying to grow indoor plants (has killed a few), writing and sending monthly haikus to say hello to friends and family, taking walks in Alameda and photographing houses and other sites that interest her, posting weekly on Facebook, and reading.
Donna adds that she and Mark have known each other since 1981, having met playing softball. They didn't start "dating" until 1993, and have been married for 24 years which she notes is a miracle! 😉 but it has been very fun!
The couple are tri-coastal. They split their time between Alameda, New York City and Brittany. They live on an island in San Francisco Bay so they walk the coastline a lot. During the pandemic they have doubled their alcohol intake and doubled the price they are willing to pay for good wine….