Urasenke First-degree Instructor License (裏千家、準教授), Japanese Tea Ceremony, 2020
Urasenke Gakuen Chadō Senmon Gakkō Research Course Completion（裏千家専門学校 研究科コース）April 2015- March 2016
M.A. in Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993
Publications:
- Team Member, “Teaching Tea” Project 2023 to Present
Japan Past and Present Website https://japanpastandpresent.or...
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities (UCLA and Waseda) - Chanoyu Lessons and Seminars 2017 to Present
- Waseda/Georgetown University Group (June 2023)
- Sakata Seed Tea (November 2019)
- Hotel & Residence Roppongi Tea Demonstrations (October, November 2018)
Diamond Princess Cruises (April 2017) - “FEW (For Empowering Women) Japan” (March 2017)
- Diamond Princess Cruises (April 2017)
- Lakeland Lectures “Unwinding the Way of Tea” (May 2017)
- Tea House Meishoan (2018 & 2019)
- Yokohama City University Extension Course: “What IS Tea Ceremony?” (Fall 2016)
- Be Here LLC Podcast (June 2020)
- 2012: TogetherGreen (Audubon and Toyota) Proposal Award ($50,000)
Tallgrass prairie community outreach project at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon - 2011: TogetherGreen (Audubon and Toyota) Proposal Award ($45,000)
Tallgrass prairie community outreach project-Spring Creek Prairie - 2011-12 Co-authored several successful, local grant applications, Audubon Nebraska
- 2012: Member of grant selection team, 2013 TogetherGreen (Audubon and Toyota)
- “Grasslands Glossary” Online Reference Tool. Commission for Environmental
Cooperation (CEC) 2012 http://www.nagrasslands.org/re... ces/introduction/ - “Nikkei Farmer on the Nebraska Plains” Book Review. Great Plains Quarterly University
of Nebraska (Sum 2011; Vol 31, #3)
- Personal Website -
