Ann Kameoka Sensei was born in Hawaii and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in anthropology, and she is the corporate benefits manager for Color Spot Nurseries, Inc. As a sansei (third-generation Japanese-American), Kameoka Sensei was exposed to various Japanese arts throughout her childhood and adult life. However, her actual involvement in the Japanese cultural arts started in 1982 with an in-depth study of Japanese yoga.

Shortly after Kameoka Sensei began practicing Japanese yoga, she also started to seriously study Japanese healing arts as well. She now holds teaching certification in both activities.

In 1988, Ann Kameoka began an intensive study of Ikenobo kado (flower arrangement) under Fukuyama Suiho Sensei. Fukuyama Sensei has been practicing and teaching flower arrangement for over 50 years. She holds the highest level of instructor certification from the Ikenobo HQ in Japan, and she is the Vice President of the Northern California chapter of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America. She is also a teacher of ikebana for Napa Community College in California. In July of 1999, Fukuyama Sensei will celebrate 45 years of teaching kado in the United States.

Along with her college teaching duties, for many years Fukuyama Sensei has privately taught a small group of usually less than a dozen disciples. Many of these personal students are flower arrangement teachers themselves, and Ms. Kameoka was admitted as a complete beginner into this inner circle. The unusually intensive nature of her training under Fukuyama Sensei, in classes often lasting three or four hours, allowed her to progress more rapidly than would have been possible via large group instruction. In 1998, Ann Kameoka was certified as a First Grade Instructor of ikebana floral art and given the "traditional title of Junkako as evidence of professional attainment." Her certificate was signed by Ikenobo Senei Sensei, Head Master in the forty fifth-generation Ikenobo house of floral art, and it was issued by the Ikenobo HQ in Kyoto.

Ms. Kameoka has exhibited her floral art at San Francisco's Japan Center in honor of the Cherry Blossom Festival and at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Her artwork has also been shown in Jack London Square in Oakland, California. She is, additionally, the Co-Chairperson for the Fukuyama Suiho Commemorative Flower Arrangement Exhibition and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Sennin Foundation, Inc. and Michi Online: Journal of Japanese Cultural Arts.