After working in advertisement planning and production, as an editor and copywriter, Benimura Akiko joined a NPO Study Group in 1995. She later established Sendai Miyagi NPO Center where she became the administrative director, board of directors, secretary general and eventually executive director in March 2011. She is currently the director of Miyagi Collaborative Recovery Center established within the above center on 18 March 2011, doing recovery work at disaster-affected areas.
