Mayumi Uejima-Carr says she has Amazon algorithms to thank, in part, for her current job. Its reading recommendation of ¡°Connecting the World With 20 Yen¡± by Masa Kogure, a book about social entrepreneurialism and the NPO Table For Two, was just the push she needed to set her on a new path.
Back in 2010, Uejima-Carr moved from Kobe to California, even though she was seven months pregnant with her first child at the time.
¡°I wonder why I did that?¡± she recalls laughing.
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