A PMI-PMP certified project manager, Haruka founded Plan It Education and East Bay College Admissions Advisors after 7 years with Cornell's alumni network.

About Me

Haruka Yamashita, based in the San Francisco East Bay, founded Plan It Education in 2016 and has hosted College Knowledge webinars since 2020. A Cornell graduate with a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies, she spent 7 years in a leadership role with Cornell's Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network in the Bay Area and served as a UC Freshman Admissions Reader, personally reviewing hundreds of applications.

Haruka also brings 10 years of Silicon Valley project and program management experience to her practice, treating each student's college journey as a project with a clear beginning and end — she's PMI-PMP Certified and uses that framework throughout her work. She completed her Independent Educational Consulting certificate from UC Irvine in 2016, belongs to HECA and WACAC, and founded the East Bay College Admissions Advisors, a local network of independent counselors dedicated to serving families well.

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