{"id":23791,"date":"2012-02-28T17:51:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23791"},"modified":"2012-02-29T12:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:18:35","slug":"jet-alumni-freelancers-career-panel-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/28\/jet-alumni-freelancers-career-panel-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alumni Freelancers Career Panel (NYC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted to the JETAANY<\/a> website:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/jetaany.org\/2012\/02\/22\/35-jet-alumni-freelancers-career-panel\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you freelancing? \u00a0Thinking about freelancing? Want to meet and hear from other JET alum freelancers? Then join us for the first ever JET Alum Freelancers Career Panel<\/a><\/strong>! We know it\u2019s a tough economy out there, and many of us are now freelancing, whether by design or involuntarily. It\u2019s high time to get together, talk about it, learn from each other and help each other out.<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Monday, March 5, 6:30pm \u2013 8:00 pm
\nWhere:<\/strong>\u00a0Japan Local Government Center (aka CLAIR NY) \u2013 3 Park Avenue, 20th Floor (34th & Park, entrance on southeast corner)
\nRSVP to:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Steven\u00a0Horowitz\u00a0–\u00a0stevenwaseda [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>\u00a0(Please feel free to tell me a little more about yourself, your situation, and what you might be looking for.)<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Drinks and light snacks will be provided. (But feel free to bring your own food and to eat during the panel)<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>The Panel<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1. Kirsten Henning\u00a0<\/strong>(Hyogo-ken, 1999-2002) \u2013 Communications\/Public Affairs Consultant (previously served as Japanese press liaison for the Seattle Mariners and Major League Baseball)<\/div>\n
2. Paul Benson<\/strong>\u00a0(Fukui-ken, 2006-08) \u2013 Freelance Translator\/Writer<\/div>\n
3. Justin Tedaldi<\/strong>\u00a0(Kobe-shi, 2001-02) \u2013 Freelance entertainment and Japanese culture writer, and JQ Magazine<\/a> Editor (http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/user\/1861736\/articles<\/wbr><\/a>)<\/div>\n
4. Matt Leichter<\/strong>\u00a0(Saitama-ken, 2003-05) \u2013 Legal Writer and Blogger (writes for\u00a0Am Law Daily<\/em>\u00a0and writes The Law School Tuition Bubble blog; ghost blogs for several law firms) (http:\/\/lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com\/<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>)<\/div>\n
5. Marea Pariser<\/strong>\u00a0(Kagoshima-ken, 2003-04) \u2013 Freelance ESL Instructor (private lessons + multiple language schools; former NHK assistant producer)<\/div>\n
6. Janice Momoko Chow<\/strong>\u00a0(Prefecture, Years) \u2013 Freelance fashion writer and market researcher (http:\/\/janice-chow.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n
7. Kia Samaniego<\/strong>\u00a0(Aichi-ken, 1996-99) \u2013 Freelance translator, writer, interpreter (former assistant director at the Donald Keene Center at Columbia University)<\/div>\n
8.\u00a0Philip Schnell<\/strong>\u00a0(Ehime-ken, 1998\u20132001) \u2013 Freelance translator<\/div>\n

Moderator:\u00a0Steven\u00a0Horowitz<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Aichi-ken, 1992-94) –\u00a0Steven\u00a0is the founder of the Writers Interpreters Translators (WIT) Group that evolved in JETwit. In addition to being a full-time grant writer, he is also does freelance writing for law firms, has done work for the Ford Foundation, and is the creator of the Bankruptcy Bill cartoon series. (http:\/\/stevenwaseda.wordpress.com\/<\/wbr><\/a>)<\/p>\n

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted to the JETAANY website: http:\/\/jetaany.org\/2012\/02\/22\/35-jet-alumni-freelancers-career-panel\/ Are you freelancing? \u00a0Thinking about freelancing? Want to meet and hear from other JET alum freelancers? Then join us for the first ever JET Alum Freelancers Career Panel! We know it\u2019s a tough economy out there, and many of us are now freelancing, whether by design or involuntarily. […]<\/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":[10,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-networking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791","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=23791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23795,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791\/revisions\/23795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}