About Lyndsey

Lyndsey is a longtime political professional, businesswoman, consultant, restorative practices practitioner, and multi-time national champion cheer coach, but what she values most is being a family-oriented, dependable, and fun-loving human being.

Lyndsey began her professional career at just 17 years old, working on John Mutz’s campaign for Sonoma County Sheriff while simultaneously serving as a Restorative Justice Fellow with the Metta Center for Nonviolence, an international nonprofit organization with United Nations consultative status. During that pivotal year, she hosted a radio show, developed restorative justice programs, discovered her passion for campaigns centered on meaningful community impact, and became a presenter at the International Institute for Restorative Practices World Conference.

Since then, Lyndsey has managed and consulted on successful political campaigns across the country, ranging from local school board races to congressional campaigns. Her career has continued to center on the intersection of leadership, community, accountability, relationship-building, and organizational change.

Lyndsey served as Miss California in the Miss Japanese-America Program for 2021 and 2022, ultimately placing in the Top 6 on the national stage. She is also a multi-time national champion cheer coach and choreographer with experience spanning All Star, school-based, and collegiate cheerleading programs. Throughout her years in the cheer and dance industries, her teams and choreography earned numerous national and international first-place titles.

Today, Lyndsey’s professional focus is increasingly centered within the trades and disaster restoration industry, where she is expanding her experience in leadership, operations, organizational culture, and relationship management. Building upon nearly a decade of work in restorative practices, she is also developing a Restorative Practices Model designed specifically for corporate accountability, organizational trust, and relationship-building. Her work explores how restorative principles can move beyond traditional educational and justice settings to help companies navigate conflict, strengthen accountability, repair organizational harm, and build more durable relationships between leadership, employees, clients, and communities.

Outside of her professional work, Lyndsey remains deeply connected to her family and cultural heritage. She continues her family’s legacy of teaching traditional Japanese dance in honor of her ancestors, participating in agricultural operations, serving on community boards, and contributing to public service, including her role as Fifth District Commissioner on the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights.

Across each chapter of her career from politics and restorative justice to business, championship-level coaching, public service, agriculture, and now the trades and disaster restoration industry the common thread in Lyndsey’s work has remained the same: bringing people together, strengthening relationships, creating accountability, and helping build communities and organizations that are better because people chose to invest in one another.