Tag: journalist
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 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…
Episode 7: The Bottom Line is Respect
David Caprara is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Japan. His documentary work has ranged from covering Nepali honey hunters in Himalayan foothills, to reconstruction efforts after the 2011 Tohoku disaster, to uncovering the mysteries of a WWII B-29 crash on a Buddhist holy mountain. He first came to live in Nara in 2012 as…