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Thomas has over 35 years of international professional fundraising experience including 20 years at Gustavus. His career is marked with a successful track record of campaigns for a variety of non-profit organizations throughout the United States as well as overseas.  

The Advancement Office at Gustavus includes responsibility for the annual fund, major gift fundraising as well as alumni and parent engagement. As Vice President, Young led his team through two successful comprehensive campaigns for physical initiatives as well as endowment growth. The campaigns generated over $400 million of documented commitments to the College including the largest commitments in the history of the College.

His position at Gustavus includes responsibility for representing the College in Sweden and has been instrumental in maintaining the College’s relationship with the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Court. He has helped recruit three Board members from Sweden and raised nearly $5 million from Swedish sources.

Toshiyuki Sakuragi is a professor of Japanese language and culture whose expertise draws from intercultural communication and cognitive linguistics. His research examines cultural influences on communication and language learning, addressing topics such as the relationship between attitudes toward language study and cross-cultural attitudes, the cognitive processes underlying classifier choice, and cultural influences on shyness. His research articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research and the International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

Among his Japanese-language publications are two books. His single-authored book, 映画で異文化体験 (Experiencing Cultures Through Film), explores the use of film to promote intercultural learning. His co-authored college textbook, はじめて学ぶ異文化コミュニケーション (Introduction to Intercultural Communication), has been widely adopted in Japan and has gone through multiple printings.

Professor Sakuragi teaches Japanese language as well as courses on Japanese cinema and intercultural film. He has also led numerous travel courses to Japan and has taught in the Summer and Winter Japanese Language and Culture Program at Hosei University in Tokyo.

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