CrossWorld Puzzles

Tag: interpreting

  • 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…

  • Episode 13: Connecting Cultures Through Words

      Shiori Okazaki grew up in Honolulu and Tokyo, and is currently based in Washington, DC. She is the President of Shiori Communications, LLC, where she connects her two home countries through interpretation and writing services. She previously worked with the communications team of various organizations, including the Embassy of Japan in the U.S.A., the…

  • Episode 10: Towards Perfect Effort

      Lefteris Kafatos first started studying Japanese at the University of Hawai’i in Manoa. He later went on the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program and was posted in Okinawa. That experience fostered in him a strong interest in language interpretation, and in the nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Lefteris went on to study at the Inter-University Center for…

  • Episode 4: Culture as a Foothold

    Robert Holloway (who also goes by “Meramsu”) is the son of a Korean adoptee, a descendant of Black Wall Street business owners who survived the Tulsa Race Riots, and a Korean simultaneous interpreter. He didn’t grow up speaking Korean. He learned because of his interest in his family’s history. Robert’s mother was adopted from South…