Frederick W. Marrazzo

Frederick Marrazzo is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park where he majored in East Asian Languages and Literature. He studied one semester in Beijing, China in 1987, a time when cultural exchange between China and the West was starting to pick up. Frederick lived four years in Taipei, Taiwan, from 1988 to 1992, during which time he worked as a reporter for The China Post, an English-language newspaper. He also worked as a translation editor for the American Institute in Taiwan, the former U.S. Embassy to Taiwan.

After completing an MBA degree at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, Frederick came to the Bay Area in 1996 and entered the technology industry as a technology recruiter and then as an executive recruiter. In 2001 he started his own executive recruiting practice Frederick William International, whose mission was to find executives for companies in the Asia Pacific region.

By 2003, Frederick had begun learning how to produce public access television programs through KMVT in Mountain View. His own show was called "Cronaca" and some of the guests he had interviewed for the program included Ken Karn, producer of the movie "Skin Deep", a feature film portraying African-American racial issues; Lawrence DiStasi, author and scholar on Italian and Italian American culture, history and heritage; Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, prominent Japanese American author of 'Farewell to Manzanar' and 'Firehorse Woman'; Firoozeh Dumas, Iranian American author of 'Funny in Farsi'; Fred L. Schodt, author of "Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics"; Francisco Jimenez, professor of modern languages and ethnic studies at Santa Clara University and author of "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child"; Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) who has published several books on the search for extraterrestial life in the universe; and Rena Krasno, who wrote about a unique and fascinating time of what life was like in Shanghai, China under the Japanese Occupation during World War II. The name of her book is called 'Strangers Always: A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai'.

In 2006 Frederick produced and directed a small documentary video called 'Forgotten Voices: Italian Americans in the Santa Clara Valley' which included interviews with local Italian Americans who spoke of their experience and memories of growing up in the Santa Clara Valley. In 2007, Frederick completed a book project on the local Italian community in the Santa Clara Valley. The book was published by Arcadia Publishing, a publisher of local and regional history books. By studying other cultures, he has come to appreciate the richness and depth of Italian culture, heritage and history.

Frederick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Rika.