Parker Yamasaki is an arts and culture reporter for the statewide publication The Colorado Sun. She holds an MA in Arts Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has freelanced for the Chicago Reader, Newcity Chicago, Southwest Contemporary, Boulder Weekly and DARIA, among other publications. She is a former Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism fellow, a Dow Jones News intern, and a graduate of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Parker got her start in culture reporting as an editor at Iceland’s only English-printed paper, The Reykjavík Grapevine. She was born and raised in California and has lived all over the southwest.