Business
You know that feeling you get when someone is looking at you? You tend to look around to see if your Spidey sense is right. Imagine then if you’re the person doing the looking, but the people you’re observing don’t bother to look up - because they exist in the Communist state of East Germany and are too defeated to return the avid gaze of the high schoolers watching them from the West German side of The Wall. This real encounter in the early 1980s changed Mari Kuraishi’s life trajectory, evoking in her such curiosity that she became a Harvard-trained Sovietologist who later returned to help rebuild the Soviet block after its political dissolution in the early 1990s. Now, Mari is the president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and is concentrating her considerable talents to ensure Jacksonville’s people, families and communities are always seen - and served.For full show notes, visit https://www.forcura.com/innovatejax.