The JETAA-sphere Podcast: Ep 8 – Designer, educator and JETAANY stalwart Lee-Sean Huang (Oita-ken, 2003-06)
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Designer, educator and longtime JETAANY contributing member Lee-Sean Huang (Oita-ken, Nakatsu-shi, 2003-06) joins Steven Horowitz(Aichi-ken, 1992-94) and Zach Piper (Kochi-ken, 2001-04) to talk about his path to JET and since JET as well as his longtime role as JETAANY Webmaster. Plus hear Leesean singing enka!
Show Links:
- AIGA: The Professional Association for Design
- AIGA book event: The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers(Q&A by Lee-Sean Huang)
- Leesean.net
- Foossa (Lee-Sean’s design and communications company)
- Jero (famous African American enka singer in Japan)
- Yoppareeikawa: English Nomikai Podcast by Emmalee Manes (Toyama-ken, 2016-19)
- Oda Yori-sensei, Professor of Japanese at Harvard University
- Nakatsu-shi, Oita-ken
- Fukuzawa Yukichi – most famous resident of Naktasu-shi
- Nakatsu, the mecca of fried chicken in Japan
- NYU: Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) Program
- The Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda
- JETwit
- JETAA New York
- Monica Yuki’s JET Alum Zoom Rajio Taisou every Friday, 11:30am (EST)
Other JETs/JET alumni mentioned in this episode:
- Emmalee Manes (Toyama-ken, 2016-19)
- Ramez Kafrouni (Niigata-ken, 2016-18), Webmaster for JETAANY
Credits
- Intro/Ending narration by Rose Horowitz (COJ)*
- Art/Design by Lee-Sean Huang (Oita-ken, 2003-06)
- Podcast hosting on Transistor courtesy of Percival Constantine (Kagoshima-ken, 2008-13)
Comments? Questions? Suggestions?
- Email Steven Horowitz at stevenwaseda@gmail.com
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- The JETAA-sphere Podcast is a production of JETwit.com, with special thanks to USJETAA and CLAIR for their support.
- *COJ = Child of JET
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