Member Spotlight

Crystal Yamasaki

Crystal Yamasaki, an account manager with Bennet Group Strategic Communications, works with clients in the areas of retail, travel, public education, architecture, and public health, including Consolidated Theatres, Club Monaco, Windward Mall, Philip K. White & Associates and Whole Foods Market. She is a native of Honolulu and holds a degree in Creative Non Fiction from the University of Redlands in California. Crystal currently serves on the PRSA Hawaii Board of Directors as the YPR (Young Professionals Resource) Chair.

Previously, she worked as an intern at McNeil Wilson Communications, and at Building a Generation, a nonprofit program in Mentone, California where she was responsible for creating the group's quarterly newsletter and working with families on how to raise their children in a healthy environment.

In her free time, Crystal is an avid South Shore surfer and swimmer as well as a volunteer swim coach for the Special Olympics.

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