Ayako Maria

SLP Chair
Kiwanis Asia-Pacific

Ayako Maria Noma, a Kiwanian since 2013, currently serves as the President-Elect of the Kiwanis Club of Saitama, Japan. She became a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Guam in 2021 and has held the role of club coach since then. In the 2022-23 term, she chaired the SLP Committee for Japan District and served as Deputy Chair of the SLP Committee for ASPAC.

Ayako has been instrumental in fostering international partnerships among SLP Clubs, overseeing successful collaborations, and organizing the first CKI Virtual Meet Up. With a background in language studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and UCLA, she passionately supports students’ educational pursuits, serving as the Principal of language schools in Japan and the United States and President of a Non-Profit Educational Organization. Her guiding principle is, “Once we hold students’ hands, we will never let them go.”