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VIAlogue

Posted on November 25, 2019 by VIA Medical Programs Director, Lina Yamashita, PhD

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders

Six high school students from Hong Kong and 32 medical students from Japan, mainland China, and Taiwan participated in the Exploring Silicon Valley (ESV) program in July and Exploring Health Care (EHC) program in August, respectively. The high school students

Posted on by Hinda Majri

VIA’s Impact in the Philippines

Although VIA stopped sending volunteers to the Philippines decades ago, several recent programs have forged new connections.  Sergius Santos, a native of the Philippines, who also studied in Japan, joined the March 2018 Design-Thinking for Social Innovation (DSI) program in

Posted on by Melissa Golden

VIA Alumni Entrepreneurs

Our alumni often apply their VIA experience to start new endeavors to address social issues. A few of our alumni entrepreneurs are highlighted here.

Yuta Tonegawa | American Language & Culture 2006 Yuta is the Founder and CEO of a

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Get Charged. Get Going

Enya Hu is the chief operating officer (COO) of Zendure USA Inc and one of VIA Programs’ guest speakers. Zendure is a premium charging brand established in Palo Alto. Before she joined Zendure as its COO, Enya was the COO

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Yu, ALC 2019 Participant

Voices of Respect and Acceptance

I’m a participant from Japan. Before arriving, I worried about that I can get along with people in America. In this program, I researched about the bias toward LGBTQ because San Francisco is one of the areas which has LGBT

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Melissa Golden

VIAlogue Summer 2016 Issue

Check out the latest issue of VIAlogue, VIA’s seasonal newsletter! In this issue we celebrate 10 years working with local schools and NGOs in Myanmar (Burma), introduce our new strategic plan – VIA 2020, and more… VIAlogue-Summer-2016