Activities
We wanted to share recent activities of a few members with you to celebrate together.
ARTS
POLICY
MEDICINE
BUSINESS&SOCIETY
ARTS
Sato Matsui (Paris)
Sato Matsui is a Julliard trained composer, and her pieces have been performed at major venues including Lincoln Center and the Kaufman Center. Learn more about her music, her story, and her philosophy
Moeko Fujii (New York)
Moeko is a critic and an essayist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Aperture Magazine, Film Comment, The Point, and elsewhere. You can learn more about her work and the collection of her pieces at New Yorker.
POLICY
Ayako Takemi (Tokyo)
Dr. Ayako Takemi has worked for Center for Global Development and the World Bank, focusing on pandemic preparedness and health financing systems. She has recently published her research through University of Tokyo, exploring the intersection between national security and pandemic response.
June Mukoyama (Tokyo)
June is creating “Policy Entrepreneur’s Platform” to engage inter-sector community to shape the policies. She will be hosting a symposium on July 15, gathering leading figures from academia, business, law, medicine, and social impact.
MEDICINE
Mai Uchida (Cambridge)
Dr. Mai Uchida is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Center of Early Identification and Prevention of Pediatric Depression. She has been featured in a Japanese TV show. Aside from her numerous publications in medicine, she recently has published a piece about how to talk about racism with children for the general public.
Anna Nakayasu (Tokyo)
Anna is an OBGYN at the Japanese Red Cross Center. Anna has published a paper at JMA Journal, exploring the impact of work life balance on specialty preferences.
Miki Watanabe (Tokyo)
Miki is a project manager at nendo, a design firm in Japan. She recently led a project to design new logos and packages for LAWSON. Check out them in stores!
Tomoko Matsukawa (New York)
Tomoko is an instructional designer and a coach based in New York. She is an expert in adult learning, online learning, and leadership development and is currently applying her skills while working for Acumen Academy and CoachEd.
She has a blog and co-creates a podcast in Japanese.
Yurie Mizukami (Tokyo)
Yurie is a director at HLAB, Inc., a social enterprise in education space that provides quality residential liberal arts programs in Japan. At HLAB, she works on the development of community-based projects and partnership building as well as design "immersive program" for innovative young leaders beyond borders.
Check out her articles and youtube channel.
Aki Nakamura (Singapore)
Aki is a hybrid of intrapreneur & entrepreneur. Currently running her own start-up, ExpertConnect Asia in Singapore with a mission of creating "Knowledge Ecosystem" in emerging market.
Saori Nishibe Yamamoto (Japan)
Saori focuses for work for working women. Some of her work includes "UMU," a media website focusing on infertility and the decisions to have children or not, "edamame talk" a podcast that covers topics for Japanese working women, as well as various advisory and consulting work.
BUSINESS