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井清 桜 Sakura Isei

Originally from Kagawa Prefecture, she moved to the United States at age 11 due to her father’s job transfer and spent seven years attending a local school in New York. After returning to Japan, she enrolled in and graduated from the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University, where all classes are conducted in English. She began her career at a major financial institution in Tokyo, working in a generalist position. Questioning Japan’s work culture while also realizing her declining English proficiency, she decided to pursue a career change in the United States. She is now working as a flight attendant for United Airlines. Instagram

井清 蘭 Ran Isei

Born in 1992 in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture. In 2003, she moved to the United States due to her parent’s job transfer and began attending a local school in New York from sixth grade. In the fall of 2010, she entered Sophia University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and relocated to Tokyo. As a student, she founded a college club and organized various events. In her senior year, she took part in an American Airlines recruitment event held in Texas. After graduating, she completed nearly two months of aviation security training and officially began working as a flight attendant in the spring of 2015. Since 2016, she has been based in Los Angeles.

下向 依梨 Eri Shimomukai

Originally from Osaka Prefecture, Eri Shimomukai works as an educational creator, primarily designing cross-curricular English and math materials and curricula for elementary school students, as well as providing consulting on classroom management.

After graduating from junior high school, she moved alone to Switzerland to attend a fully residential high school. Upon graduation, she returned to Japan and enrolled in Keio University’s Faculty of Policy Management.

She created Changemaking Patterns in both Japanese and English, a work that articulates the tacit knowledge and experiential insights of social entrepreneurs using the Pattern Language method, and published the English edition. In 2014, she moved to the U.S. and earned a master’s degree in Learning Sciences and Developmental Psychology from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. After returning to Japan, she taught at a full-time alternative elementary school in Tokyo.

She later assumed her current roles as Director of Live Innovation and Manager of the Education Creation Division.

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