Tag: community
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Episode 17: Being Present in the Moment
Sam Ushio is the Founder of Ikigai Lab, where he leads the social enterprise’s commitment to human sustainability and societal impact. Sam fuses a powerful combination of 10,000+ hours of Ikigai experience and 20 years of global asset management experience to design purpose-driven ecosystems for individuals and organizations around the world. Prior to founding Ikigai…
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Episode 16: Owning Your Superpower
Niharika Chibber Joe is a service-oriented public diplomat with experience across government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors. She currently serves as Deputy Agency Head of the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency strengthening the U.S.–Japan Alliance through educational and cultural exchange in support of U.S. partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. Previously, she was General Manager…
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Episode 14: Laugh Together, Be Together
Gigi Modrich is an Indian law practitioner, roller derby skater, and stand-up comedian. She was brought up in a multiethnic household: her mother is Jicarilla Apache and her father is Croatian American. While she is multiracial, her upbringing focused on her Native American culture. She attended Dartmouth College because it was founded for the…
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Episode 9: Beauty Not Loudly Told
Mari Yobp was born and raised in Japan. She grew up in Zushi City, which faces the Pacific Ocean and is about an hour away from Tokyo. She also lived in Hong Kong for a year and a half when she was 4 years old. She majored in oil painting and printmaking at Musashino Art University,…
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Episode 8: Building Empathy Through Nuance
Natalia Quintana-Feliciano is a Puerto-Rican & Colombian storyteller, poet, artist, and student reporter based in Washington, DC. She is passionate about nonprofit work and currently works as a communications and event coordinator at a health policy think tank in DC. Prior to her current role, Natalia was at PBS KIDS, where she organized conferences…
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Episode 5: Finding Joy in the Struggle
Originally from Tokyo and now based in Seattle, Yuko Watanabe is a strategy & operations consultant who is passionate about innovative technology that tackles the world’s big problems. She has an MPA from Harvard, along with 13+ years of cross-industry experience serving big tech, startups, government agencies, and nonprofits worldwide, such as Google, Starbucks,…