This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
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This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
Ayumi Ostrowski _ Between the Lines: A Designer’s Journey Through Culture & Corporate America (Japanese Version)
Voices Across Borders
17 minutes
1 month ago
Ayumi Ostrowski _ Between the Lines: A Designer’s Journey Through Culture & Corporate America (Japanese Version)
Between the Lines: A Designer’s Journey Through Culture & Corporate America デザイナーのアユミ・オストロウスキーさんが、東京とサンフランシスコを行き来しながら、カルチャーとクリエイティビティを融合させた旅について語ります。現在はフリーランスとして、デザインと料理の新しいつながりを探求中。アメリカでの美大進学のきっかけや、日米の企業文化の違い、そして創造性が国や文化によってどう変化するかを掘り下げます。 Designer Ayumi Ostrowski shares her journey from Tokyo to San Francisco, blending cultures, creativity, and design. Now freelancing, she’s exploring how art and food intersect. We discuss her path to U.S. art school, the contrasts between Japanese and ...
Voices Across Borders
This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
