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After I finished my undergraduate degree, I had the opportunity to do an internship in Tokyo at teamLab, a company known for its large scale digital art installations. I worked primarily in Japanese and created a proto

In Spring 2018 I participated in the BOSP Stanford in Kyoto Program. The Stanford Kyoto center is located in Doshisha University and I lived with a host family in Uji.

This is a short paper I wrote for an intensive Japanese summer course I took at UC Berkeley summer of 2016. The paper examines why Japan has a relatively low number of women studying and/or working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and what steps are being taken to increase participation.

In summer of 2018 I interned at a Japanese company called 1-10 Inc., which helps other companies engineer and produce creative marketing campaigns. As most of my coworkers were Japanese, I communicated with them primarily in Japanese and also completed a prototype of a digital installation.

I have taken a variety of Japanese classes since high school and am still excited to learn more about Japanese! 

In 2018 I completed Japanese year three at Stanford.

During my junior year of high school I attended Osaka International School of Kwansei Gakuin as part of their Global Futures Program. I lived in an international dormitory for seven months with students from all over the world, and in my host family's Buddhist temple for two months. Though most of my classes were in English, I took math classes in Japanese and returned with conversational Japanese.

The Stanford Japanese Exchange Conference is an annual student run short term exchange program where students from Keio, Doshisha and Kyoto University stay at Stanford's campus, and participate in a variety of social and academic activities.

This is a seven page term paper I wrote for Stanford Japanese year three about Deaf culture in Japan. In the paper I examine how history, generation gaps, and hearing society affects Japanese Deaf people's view of their identities.