Tag: U.S.
Protected: Episode 9: Beauty That is Not Loudly Told
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
Episode 3: A Privilege and a Power
Mari Kuraishi is the president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, leading the Fund’s efforts to create communities of belonging for the places and institutions that Jessie Ball duPont knew and loved. Prior to joining the Fund, Mari co-founded the groundbreaking crowdfunding philanthropy site GlobalGiving with Dennis Whittle, and served as President until 2018. In…
Episode 2: Embracing Our Own Differences
Grace Kim was born in the U.S. to Korean parents. She spent most of her childhood in Japan but also grew up in Korea and the U.S. From 2015 to 2016, Grace lived in Okayama Prefecture, serving as a Coordinator for International Relations (CIR) for the JET Programme. She is now based in Northern Virginia…
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…