Yeji Jeung Shipley

Program Director

Yeji Jeung-Shipley, a half Korean and a half Cantonese raised in Boston, first came to Japan as a one-year exchange student of Waseda University. After living with her excellent host family, her interests in Japanese culture and its language deepened. After graduating from the college and about a year and a half of travelling within the US and overseas, she came back to Japan as a participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET Programme) in 2000.

After 3 years of a slow and peaceful life deeply involved in the local community of the beautiful Shikoku Island where she calls her Japan home, Yeji moved to Tokyo and started working as a Programme Coordinator for the JET Programme headquarter from July 2003 to August 2006.

After being a guest for over 2 years, she finally joined FEW in early spring, 2006.

After 6 years of career as an international exchange program specialist, she is currently taking a time off, just catching up with her favorite books, love comedy DVDs and flute practice. She is ready to jump into a brand-new career world when she meets something that she can fall in love with just like she did with the JET Programme;

Through her experience organizing wide range of national level conferences for over 6000 JET participants across Japan, Yeji has built up a cool network with business professionals from various fields. Yeji says, “FEW has been a wonderful networking opportunity and a place for great inspiration from energetic women all around. I’ve learned so many things from people I met through FEW. I just wanted to find a way to give something back to FEW, because I’ve been just receiving so much”, and decided to become a Program Director.

With her co-director Ai Nakagawa who covers Yeji’s clumsiness at all times, Yeji is busy finding great people out there to speak for FEW monthly events and she is enjoying her role very much for its challenge and gifts of interacting with people.

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