George Miller \\"Appreciating the Differences\\"  Watch Video George Miller is a photojournalist, an academic administrator, a professor, a baseball player, an American, and a Japanese all-in-one. The child of a father from a conservative white family and a mother from a traditional Japanese household, George recounts his experiences of “in-betweenness” and never fitting in whether at home or in the community. Join journalist George as he illustrates the world he’s seen as a multicultural individual from “busing” and segregation in White America to traditional, old port town Sasebo in rural Japan. Presentation Outline and Highlights Introduction and Background Photojournalism Interests and Passions  Transitioning from Journalism to Education  Growing up half-Japanese and half-American  Sasebo and Japanese Family History  Family History in America  Early Schooling and Bussing Racism and Desegregation in America   Diversity in Media Jump: A magazine highlighting diversity in Philadelphia  Mass Media and the perpetuation of stereotypes Finding your passion and standing out in Japan Speaker Biography George Miller was the associate dean for academic affairs at Temple University, Japan Campus from 2018 through 2021. He has taught journalism classes at Temple since 2006. He is currently researching the relationships between universities and their surrounding residential communities, and raising a newborn. Previously, he was a photojournalist, features writer and crime reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, from 1994 until 2006. He published JUMP, a printed magazine that covered the Philadelphia music scene, from 2010 until 2018. His words and images have appeared in publications around the world. He is a graduate of Loyola University of Maryland and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He completed a second master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a doctoral candidate at Wilmington University. George was raised in Wilmington, Delaware but has been traveling to Japan since he was an infant, as half of his family is Japanese, from the city of Sasebo in Nagasaki-ken.