Japan: Networking Meeting #4

The fourth person I interviewed for my networking component was a Wellesley alumna who works for a credit rating agency in Tokyo. She was incredibly inspiring and helpful and was one of the most interesting insights into the finance industry that I have gotten so far. She was extremely nice and a role model for […]

Japan: Networking Meeting #3

Hello everyone. The third person that I interviewed for my networking component of the program was a JET program Coordination for International Relations (CIR) in the neighboring prefecture of Ibaraki. I met him through a school trip with the Middlebury School in Japan (the exchange program I am part of in  ICU, Tokyo) and decided […]

Japan: Networking Meeting #2

The second person I interviewed was a person who had graduated from my high school network, United World Colleges (UWC), was from Japan and after studying university abroad in the UK decided to go back to work in his home country, Japan. He also works for the big four (Deloitte, PwC,  Ernst& Young and KPMG) […]

Japan: Networking Meeting #1

While I was working for JOIN during my internship I was at a 10 story building with many different companies. One day after work, I was on the elevator with another person who approached me and asked me what I was doing in the building. After explaining that I was working at JOIN, she explained […]

Sofia Ginard’s Bio

Hello Everyone! My name is Sofia Ginard and I am the 2018-2019 Ted Wang Fellow for Tokyo, Japan! I am currently spending my semester abroad at the International Christian University (ICU) through Middlebury’s School in  Japan Exchange Program, which Wellesley has a partnership with. As classes don’t officially start until April in Japan, I spent […]