Editing Jason Shiga (section)

==Early life==
Jason Shiga is from [[Oakland, California]].<ref name=EmpireState>{{cite book |last=Shiga |first=Jason |title=Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |location=New York |year=2011 |isbn=9780810997479 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/empirestateloves0000shig }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jason Shiga {{!}} Contributors |url=https://www.abramsbooks.com/contributor/jason-shiga_912423/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=ABRAMS |language=en}}</ref> His father, Seiji Shiga, was an animator who worked on the 1964 Rankin-Bass production ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]''. Jason Shiga was a [[pure mathematics]] major at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1998.<ref name="EmpireState" />