About
English 日本語 한국어 🙆♂️
Education
Writing
A selfie in the form of a prose poem as part of a project reimagining the function of web accessibility tools like alt-text for photos and images.
A meditation on the sun, sky photography, and our physical and social proximity during the pandemic for the online annual art essay publication The Life and Death of an Internet Onion (available to read once a year from July to September)
This essay examines doors, their history, and their meaning through a fictionalized account of the moment of their origin in Natufian society, and a philosophical analysis of what that invention says about the evolution of human consciousness.
Projects
Provided editorial guidance for an interactive piece run in the New York Times by artist and educator, Laurel Schwulst.
A poem written for Hong Kong designer Derek Chan (DEMO) for his Fall/Winter 2020 men's collection, "Romanticism"
Compiled data and wrote biographical information on various English language writers associated with 20th century literary Modernism
Work Experience
Generated engaging copy for Gingermite's online branding initiatives, event promotions, pamphlets, and other marketing materials, effectively conveying the company's floral art and brand identity to target audiences.
Provided freelance translations from Japanese to English for a variety of clients in business, finance, entertainment, publishing, and more.
I instructed English as a foreign language to children ages 9 through 12, designed club and camp activities, and taught basic web development for kids with a focus on English during an after-school program.
I instructed English as a foreign language to children ages 12 through 16, provided mentoring in preparation for standardized English examinations, and individually coached several award-winning speech contest students.
I worked as a researcher and biographer creating content and collecting data on writers, publishing houses, and their works to be used as material for students and teachers of literary Modernism.
Working with small groups of children, I conducted daily acting exercises, designed sets and lighting, and wrote a tailored playscript for the children to be performed at the end of a two-month teaching period in a local black-box theatre.
Speaking
I introduce some key ideas in linguistics for use by native English teachers in their ESL classroom with a focus on applied phonetics.
I dispel the myth that English does not have so-called "polite language" and, citing relevant literature in linguistics, discuss how vocabulary and other phenomena such as "hedging" contributes to the polite register in English.
Certifications
I was one of 30 teachers across Japan selected to participate in a course aimed at preparing instructors of Japanese as a foreign language.