Roots to Fruit Momoko Nakamura

BIO: Michelle is a LatinX puppeteer, puppet creator, and CEO of Viva La Puppet, LLC. She traveled around the world bringing Waffles to life alongside Michelle Obama (Waffles and Mochi), lead the team that created The Tiger and The Buffalo (Meta), and collaborated on puppets for A Black Lady Sketch Show, Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg, and Jason Mraz. She is a Mama to Ellie and Milo and finds inspiration in their wonderment and joy for our world.

ROOTS: Texas, Los Angeles

FRUIT: By way of her grandmother’s enthusiasm for grito, and her mother’s enchanting butcher paper worlds, Michelle breathes voice and magic into puppets who help us to discover new perspective.

INFO: https://vivalapuppet.com https://www.instagram.com/vivalapuppet/ https://www.instagram.com/michellezamoraofficial/



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BIO: Author of Everyday Korean and founder of KoreanFusion, Seung Hee Lee is a writer and teacher with a PhD in Human Nutrition. Born and raised in Korea, she has studied traditional Korean Royal Court cuisine. She teaches cooking classes in Atlanta, Georgia and serves pop-up dinners all around the world from Copenhagen to Seoul.

ROOTS: South Korea

FRUIT: In part a product of her grandmother’s kitchen, her father’s teachings of vested experience, and her mother’s food memories, it is Seung Hee’s passionate mission to share the delicious techniques and stories of Korean cuisine with the world.

INFO: https://www.thekoreanfusion.com https://www.instagram.com/koreanfusion/ https://www.thekoreanfusion.com/book

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BIO: Nikki was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent her formative years in the North Island of New Zealand. She studied sociology and media studies at the University of Auckland while developing a passion in fair trade and human rights advocacy. With over 12 years of experience as a translator and interpreter, she currently hosts a Japanese radio show that brings attention to various social, cultural and political affairs.

ROOTS: Japan, New Zealand, England, Scotland

FRUIT: Nikki leverages her bilingual and bicultural background to navigate conversation and exploration of the female voice in Japan.

INFO: https://www.instagram.com/kittenmouth/ https://twitter.com/tsukaniki85

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BIO: Nour Najem is a serial social entrepreneur. She believes design’s true purpose is to draw change and out of the box solutions. Through her eponymous label, she has consulted and partnered up with Caritas, L’Artisan du Liban, Phenomenal Women, as well as other vulnerable communities. In 2013, she founded Kenzah in parallel to her brand, to preserve, develop and transmit traditional craftsmanship, and more recently Lebanon Needs, to provide vulnerable populations with essential survival requirements. She believes design plays an integral part in activating social-led change for the country.

ROOTS: Lebanon, Brazil

FRUIT: Nour’s entrepreneurial spirit is one that co-exist with the riches of cultural creativity and healthy social structure. She is on a mission to uncover Lebanon’s powerful collective story.

INFO: https://www.lebanonneeds.org https://www.instagram.com/lebanonneeds/ http://www.nournajem.com https://www.instagram.com/nournajemdesigns/

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BIO: Born and raised in Tokyo, to a Japanese mother from rural Hokkaido and American father from rural Oregon. Attended international school in Japan, then moved to the US for university. Upon graduation, worked in finance in Los Angeles before returning to Tokyo in 2015.

Jeffery lives with his two young boys, and his wife with whom he runs Tokyo Juice, the only American-style juice bar in Japan.

ROOTS: US, Japan

FRUIT: A Tokyo native experiences physical and emotional burnout as a Japanese salaryman, and takes hints from his father’s deep respect of nature and his mother’s childhood farm, to inform his own recovery and very fruitful business.

INFO: https://tokyojuice.co.jp/ https://www.instagram.com/tokyojuice/

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BIO: Andrea Balboni is a Sex, Love and Relationships Coach who knows an important truth that she wants everyone to know – the secret to having the relationship, sex and intimacy you want – lies deep within you.

And she knows how to get that secret out, because she’s done it herself.

After more than a decade single, she finally cracked the code and created an incredible relationship full of depth, connection, love and blissful erotic pleasure.

It is now her mission to help others do the same.

ROOTS: Italy, US

FRUIT: In recognizing social paradigm and cultivated self-judgement, Andrea explores her relationship with bread, art, and the church, to find empowerment in her own body and soul.

INFO https://www.lushcoaching.com/calendar https://www.instagram.com/andreabalboni_lush/ https://www.facebook.com/andrea.balboni.54 https://www.facebook.com/groups/findmodernlove https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreabalboni/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_ZyLXMaHAjao0foSI353A https://www.lushcoaching.com/ https://www.lushcoaching.com/vlog

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