Tag: positive
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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 1: Always Adaptable
Sayuri Romei is half Japanese and half Italian. She was raised in Rome, Italy, where she attended French school, as well as Japanese school on Saturdays. Based in Washington, DC, Sayuri is the Senior Fellow for Japan at the German Marshall Fund’s Indo-Pacific Program, where she leads work on Japan and US-Japan-Europe relations. She’s also…