Yuri Kageyama worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press for over 25 years, working at offices in Tokyo, London, and New York. Her father worked as a NASA engineer in both Japan and the US. After graduating with honors from Cornell University, she acquired a master's degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley.

She has covered many topics and genres as a journalist for the Associated Press, from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear accident that devastated Eastern Japan, to science and technology, business, entertainment, politics, sports, and even pop culture and trends. She is also a poet, a writer, a songwriter and a film maker; she uses her words and music to continuously challenging herself in new culture, new genres, and the new generation.