Monica Yeung Arima was born in Hong Kong and graduated from UC Berkeley. She worked for IBM and is a longtime Palo Alto realtor. Monica and her husband Adrian, a Stanford alumnus and a third generation Japanese American, live in Professorville. Monica has participated in many community activities, including Paly’s Kiwanis Key Club, the Palo Alto Chinese Parents Club, Leadership Palo Alto 2018 and city council and school board campaigns. She managed a successful exhibition for the Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project that traveled around the country and supported Stanford’s multiethnic education program training school teachers. In 2016 Santa Clara County commended her service on the Palo Alto Stanford Citizen Corps Council.
“I want to encourage others to support the Palo Alto Museum and build a solid support base. The Museum will tell the great story of Palo Alto and Stanford University. It will serve as a community hub.”