JETAA-sphere Podcast Steven Horowitz

USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston (Hokkaido 2003-06) talks with Hollywood screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue (Nagasaki 2002-04) about her recent #1 Netflix movie, A Tourist's Guide to Love, and how JET did and continues to inform her work.

In this episode, USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston chats with Mayumi Uejima-Carr and Miwako Felix of Table for Two, a non-profit that started in Japan and has expanded globally with the goal of educating people about healthy eating and Japanese food culture. Learn how you or your chapter can easily host a Table for Two event that makes a positive impact on the world!

Web links:


USJETAA: www.usjetaa.org
Table for Two: https://usa.tablefor2.org/⁠
Edamame Champ (includes team registration & event playbooks): https://www.wa-shokuiku.org/edamamechamp
Onigiri Action: https://usa.tablefor2.org/onigiri-action
Washokuiku: https://www.wa-shokuiku.org/
USJETAA Jobs Board: Washokuiku Volunteer Position: https://usjetaa.org/job-opportunities-internship-listings/volunteer-japanese-food-education-cooking-wa-shokuiku/
USJETAA Jobs Board: Washokuiku Instructor Postion: https://usjetaa.org/job-opportunities-internship-listings/japanese-food-education-instructor-wa-shokuiku/

Contact: wa-shokuiku@tablefor2.org 

Did you know that as of September, 2022, there are 107 JET alumni who are also alumni of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)?* And with good reason! 

Listen to this interview with JET/MIIS alumni Scott Pulizzi and Rebecca Guttentag to learn more about the JET/MIIS connection. 

Links:

Professor Scott Pulizzi


https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottpulizzi/
https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/people/scott-pulizzi

Rebecca Guttentag


https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-guttentag/

MIIS - Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey


https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/

JET Scholarship for MIIS


go.miis.edu/jet

And thanks to Jill Stoffers, Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at MIIS, for her help with arrangements and logistics.

*Source: Jill Stoffers

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Our second installment in the submission-based Mothra Storytelling Hour, where JET alumni submit their stories related to the chosen theme. This episode we share the theme of SUCCESS. We'll hear some classroom stories, travel experiences, life accomplishments, and post - JET successes. Listen to our 7 submissions from fellow alumni! Hosted by Samantha Lastres (Tokyo 2017-21.)  Next episode's theme is ADVENTURE! Submit your stories here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19EN7eDcAlUB-dnbokFreI1EpcHkcZzIg?usp=sharing or by email: samanthalastres@gmail.com, stevenwaseda@gmail.com 

Thanks to our submitters: Laura Egan (Miyagi 2015 - 2018), Joe Palermo (Gunma 1982-83), Scot Alprin (Aichi 1992-1995), Sarah Coomber (Yamaguchi 1994-96), Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94), Anntanya Shair (Hyogo 2019-2022) www.anntanya.com, Scot Maupin (Hokkaido 2005-09) check out his podcast http://perfectshow.site/episodes/

In Episode 16, the JETAA-sphere interviews recently re-elected JETAA International President Nathalie Ng (Shizuoka-ken, 2010-11) of JETAA Singapore as well as JETAA International Webmaster Eden Law (Fukushima-ken, 2010-11) of JETAA New South Wales to learn all about what JETAA International is, what it does, and how it exists. We also get to learn more about JETAA Singapore and JETAA New South Wales as well as hear some good stories from Nathalie and Eden's JET days.

Co-Hosts


Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94)
Ryan Hata (Tottori-ken, 2014-17)

Organizations mentioned:


JETAA International
JETAA International Advisory Board
JETAA International Executive Committee
List of all JETAA chapters worldwide
List of Country Representatives (CRs) for JETAA in each country
JET30: JETAA International Meeting and Global Forum 2016
JETAA New South Wales
JETAA Singapore
JETAA UK
Life After JET podcast by Eden Law
JETAA Tokyo
JETAA Western Japan

JET Alumni mentioned in this episode:


Olivia Clarke
Rose Tanasugarn
John Lucas
Andrew Massey - JETAA Canada CR and new JETAAI Vice-Chair
Lawrence Innis - JETAA Trinidad & Tobago
Matt Gillam, CLAIR NY
Xander Peterson
Mark Frey

In Episode 15 of the JETAA-sphere podcast, we interview Prof. Takaaki Hiratsuka, author of Narrative inquiry into language teacher identity: ALTs in the JET program.


Click this link http://bit.ly/VBL-Register to register for the May 28 book launch event!

Ep 15 Co-hosts:


Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94)
Mark Frey (Kumamoto-ken, 2002-2006)

About Prof. Takaaki Hiratsuka: 


List of Prof. Hiratsuka's writings and presentations
Bio: Takaaki Hiratsuka is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Ryukoku University, in Kyoto where he teaches a range of applied linguistics courses and supervises master's and PhD students in related fields of language teacher education and narrative inquiry. He has a PhD in Language Teaching and Learning from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. And an avid futsal player.

Other JET Alumni or Friends of JET mentioned in this episode:


Bruce Feiler (Tochigi-ken, 1988-89), author of numerous best-sellers including Learning to Bow
David L. McConnell, author of Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program
Earth Bennett (Aomori-ken, 2000-03), author of the JET cartoon strip series Every Situation Is Different
David Namisato (Aomori-ken-2002-04), author of the cartoon book Life After the B.O.E.
Khalid Birdsong (Osaka-fu, Shimamoto-cho, 2003-05), author of the cartoon series Fried Chicken & Sushi

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Special thanks to USJETAA and CLAIR for their support for the JETAA-sphere!