FLAS recipient Darius Izad graduated in 2018 with a J.D. from the UW School of Law. Darius is currently a Captain and Attorney in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. He sat down with the EAC for a virtual interview in late 2020. Can you expand on your experience learning Chinese as

FLAS recipient Ida Knox graduated in 2020 with a JD and LLM from the UW School of Law, focusing on sustainable international development. Ida currently works as an Associate Attorney at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. She recently joined the EAC for a virtual interview. Thank you for the opportunity to chat. How are you

  FLAS recipient Chris Choi graduated in Summer 2019 with a joint MBA and MA in Japan Studies, focusing on international business, marketing, economics, and national security. He offered to sit down with the EAC for an interview. Thanks for the opportunity to chat, Chris. How are you holding up? I’m doing well! Thank you

Passing the Torch: A Discussion Between Outgoing and Incoming FLAS Fellows Two of the East Asia Center’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows, Min Guo (Class of ’19) and Ian Smith (Class of ’20), sat down at the end of Spring 2019 to exchange insights about their FLAS experiences, career aspirations and more. Min

   Tracy E. King, Jr. (MAIS, East Asia, 1983), was featured in an article by Capital Press titled “China needs apple diversity, marketer says.” King, CEO of a Chinese fruit company, warns that since seventy percent of China’s apple production is Fuji, it will suffer the same downturn Washington growers faced in the late 1990s and early

Splash is a Seattle-based international non-profit organization that helps provide safe water to hundreds of thousands of children living in urban poverty in Asia and Africa. Alumnus Eric Stowe (M.A., international studies, 2003), who founded Splash after working in China’s orphanages, is interviewed in the February issue of the University of Washington’s College of Arts &

By Tina Lu Special to the Jackson School One retired U.S. Air Force officer and alumnus of the Jackson School is pursuing U.S.-China relations in a unique way. In 2011, Carson Tavenner (MAIS, China, 2000) started the Tai Initiative, which helps build U.S.-China relationships between organizations at a local level. That means helping schools, corporations,