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December Community Services Feature with Angela Ortiz, Founder of A Place To Grow

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By Tia Haygood, Community Services Director “When you experience a disaster, when you lose everything that was important, your world falls apart. You lose hope.…

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November Meeting Recap: Disruptive Innovation: Shifts in Technology

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When Emi Takemura graduated, the internet pretty much didn’t exist, and in her first job there was only one computer, and one email address. So…

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How I Got Here: Alicia Narusé

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After leaving my home town of Taipei, Taiwan, to study aboard in the United States at age 10, I received an American education from middle…

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Strategic Partner Spotlight: Megumi Moss, Founder and CEO, Carefinder

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I joined FEW 4 years ago, around the same time I started my company CareFinder, a bilingual babysitter matching site. CareFinder aims to support working…

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November Community Services Feature with Charles McJilton of Second Harvest

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By Tia Haygood, Community Services Director With Winter and the holiday season around the corner, many of us are mapping out our plans for the…

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How I Got Here: Aya McCrindle

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In my life, I’ve experience five personal ‘tsunamis’ that threatened to leave me broken, but instead gave me strength and led to the creation of…

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Strategic Partner Spotlight: Sarah Furuya Coaching- Celebrating 5 Years in Business

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As I write this, it is 5 years to the day since I quit my job, hopped on a plane to NYC and went to…

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Special Event Recap: Make the Connection: Practical Networking Strategies that Work for You

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What is networking? How do you prepare for a ‘networking’ event – your approach, look, conversation points, questions? How do you overcome shyness to approach…

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October Meeting Recap: Multiculturalism through Japan’s Eyes

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Japan has been dealing with an influx of foreigners in the past few years, with overseas residents here reaching 2.38 million in 2016. But how…

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Q&A with Multiculturalism Experts Anjeli Narandran and Louise George Kittaka

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Leading up to our upcoming monthly meeting on ‘Multiculturalism through Japan’s Eyes,’ we’re featuring a Q&A with two of our speakers, Anjeli Narandran, International Coordinator at Peace…

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