Francis "Kumi" Hinson was on his way to life in liberal arts until his interest in platforms and journalism took off. He co-founded Chesscademy, which grew to become the largest chess education platform in the world. Since then, his passion for building technologies that push humanity forward has persisted. He's won several top prizes in technology competitions globally including HackMIT and HackPrinceton. He went through Y Combinator's education accelerator and Stanford's StartX program.

Stories For You is hosted by Kazuki Akiba. It is produced by Troy Enoka with additional dialogue written by Tiffany Khuu and Nicole Bernardo. Edited by Kazuki Akiba, Nicole Bernardo and Ray Lanuza.

Brian Blum, Ray Lanuza, and GrayLaptop mixed the episode. Music by Graylaptop.

Cheryl Davis started off her professional career as an attorney working at major law firms while having a big aspiration for writing. Few decades later, she has written over dozens of TV shows and plays winning multiple awards including Ed Kelban Award, Writer’s Guild Award as well as getting an Emmy nomination for her work on “As the World Turns” while providing legal counsels to many authors and writers all over the city. But her journey to becoming an award-winning writer wasn’t an easy one. Cheryl talks with Kazuki about the people who encouraged her down that path, and her realization that she needs to follow what jazzes her.

Check out her new play, BRIDGES at the Amas Theatre on November 15th and 16th.

Here’s the info below:

Amas Dare to Different Festival

November 15 @ 3 & 7pm

November 16 @ 3pm

A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA

To learn more about Cheryl, please check the website here:

http://cldplay.com/

Cheryl L. Davis is a practicing attorney in Manhattan and is General Counsel of the Authors Guild while writing for variety of TV shows and plays.

Stories For You is hosted by Kazuki Akiba. This week’s episode is produced by Ed Lee and edited by Kazuki Akiba. Ray Lanuza and Brian Blum mixed the episode. Music by GrayLaptop.

When Piera Van De Wiel was inspired to sing and perform, she had a dream that one day she would be the Singer-Songwriter that she wanted to be. And once she came to the US, it seemed the sky was the limit for Piera. Find out how Piera went from an aspiring Singer-Songwriter to Singer-Songwriter, Actress, Film Producer, and Entrepreneur.

Event info:

Come by the Feinstein's 54 Below Stronger With Music show will be on January 18th at 9:30pm!

Check out Piera's work here:

https://www.pieravandewiel.com/

https://www.pieravandewiel.com/stronger-with-music/

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/its-complicated-feat-steve-barakatt-single/1403583097

Living in New York City, there are over 11 million unique stories and voices out there and we want to shed a spotlight on stories that have never been heard.

‘Stories For You’ focuses on unique under-represented voices from various industries that need to be heard. First episode premieres November 13