{"id":20788,"date":"2011-07-24T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20788"},"modified":"2011-07-24T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:15:03","slug":"jet-alum-with-key-role-in-post-katrina-response-meets-with-jet-alum-working-on-japan-earthquake-disaster-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/24\/jet-alum-with-key-role-in-post-katrina-response-meets-with-jet-alum-working-on-japan-earthquake-disaster-response\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum with key role in post-Katrina response meets with JET alum working on Japan earthquake disaster response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned from <strong><a href=\"..\/?s=jim+gannon\">Jim Gannon<\/a> (Ehime-ken, 1992-94)<\/strong>, Executive Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcie.or.jp\/\">Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE\/USA)<\/a>, that in the course of <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/22\/challenges-facing-the-us-japan-earthquake-relief-response\/\">his recent work with JCIE\/USA to help coordinate U.S. efforts to support Japan with disaster relief<\/a>, Jim had the opportunity to set up a meeting in New York for Japanese representatives from key volunteer organizations with someone who played a key role in the post-Hurricane Katrina response.\u00a0 And it turned out that person happens to be a JET alum as well&#8211;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surdna.org\/component\/content\/article\/3-whats-new\/283-surdna-announces-new-program-director-for-strong-local-economies-program.html\/\">Shawn Escoffery<\/a> (Tochigi-ken, 1998-99)<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sean currently serves as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surdna.org\/component\/content\/article\/3-whats-new\/283-surdna-announces-new-program-director-for-strong-local-economies-program.html\/\">Director of the Strong Local Economies Program<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surdna.org\/\">Surdna Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned from Jim Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94), Executive Director of the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE\/USA), that in the course of his recent work with JCIE\/USA to help coordinate U.S. efforts to support Japan with disaster relief, Jim had the opportunity to set up a meeting in New York for Japanese representatives from key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[378,304,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5pi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20790,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions\/20790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}