This Akiko Ito is the Membership Growth & Development Manager for Asia-Pacific Junior Chamber International World-Wide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs... and is the wrong Akiko Ito.
I'll send $100 to anyone who finds Akiko Ito, via PayPal, cash, money order, whatever you like. Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn have all turned up dead ends, btw.
The artist who created this poster is not the right Akiko. It's a great poster though. The Akiko I'm looking for grew up in Japan, she should be about 30 now. She speaks fluent (but accented) English, might have spent time in New York. Her father is a well-documented landscape architect in Japan.
I'm looking for Akiko Ito, who lived in Venice, CA from about 2001-2004. Unfortunately, there are a lot of Akiko Itos. My hope is that she googles her own name one of these days, and contacts me, or, that someone else knows where she is.