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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