Podcast appearances and mentions of cindy wu

In this episode, Cindy Wu shares her journey of faith and service, exploring the intersection of cross-cultural work, hospitality, and justice. With a heart for the marginalized and a deep understanding of cross-cultural ministry, Cindy unpacks what it means to welcome the stranger and embody the love of Christ in tangible ways. Join us as we discuss her experiences, the lessons she's learned, and how we can all cultivate a spirit of hospitality and compassion in our daily lives.Cindy is also one of the retreat leaders for the 2025 Velvet Ashes Online Retreat! It isn't too late to register and access the amazing teaching and resources in this year's retreat. Learn more about the retreat here. Learn more about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Velvet Ashes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Velvet Ashes on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Featured music is "Daughters and Sons" by EineBlume. Check out more from them on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠iTunes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or wherever you get music!We are grateful to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Barnabas International⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this podcast! Barnabas is a member care organization that shepherds global workers and trains global shepherds. Learn more about them ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Rev. Cindy M. Wu is co-founder and Director of Diaspora Ministries of Mosaic Formation, a Christian non-profit she co-directs with her husband, David. Additionally, she mobilizes Christians to welcome refugees, a true passion of hers. As a “pastor to pastors,” her ministry focuses on serving the city and church at-large through community organizing, spiritual direction, leading workshops and retreats, and cross-cultural training.Cindy is author or co-author of books and articles on global Christian identity, religious demography, and refugee welcome (browse publications here). She also delves some into poetry.Cindy is based in Houston, TX, and is ordained to word and service with the Evangelical Covenant Church. She enjoys global cuisine, historical fiction, (short) triathlons, and thunderstorms.Connect with Cindy at cindymwu.com.

March is Women's History Month and in this episode of Talking Taiwan I'll be speaking with the Angela Feng, the organizer of the Empowering Women Through Education and Community Action panel, a UN CSW69 Parallel Event that's going to be held here in New York City on Friday, March 14th from 4:30pm-6:00pm. CSW69 stands for the 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Also with me in this interview are the other two panelists Cindy Wu who's been a previous guest on Talking Taiwan and Dr. Remi Duyile.   There are quite a few acronyms tossed around in this conversation so I thought I'd mention them upfront here like SDG goals, which stands for Sustainable Development Goals which were adopted by United Nations Member States. There are 17 SDGs because ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.   The other acronym you'll hear is BPW which stands for Business and Professional Women.   The theme of the panel is how education and community initiatives equal empowerment. The session will dive into how education and grassroots programs can transform lives.   Angela, Cindy and Dr. Remi not only talked about the panel, and work of their respective organizations, but I ask each of the women who were their earliest role models who helped to shape who they are today, and to share about challenges that they've had to overcome in their careers thus far.   If you'd like to know how you can attend the Empowering Women Through Education and Community Action panel visit TalkingTaiwan.com where we'll share a link to register for it on Eventbrite.   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: ·  Angela Feng, Cindy Wu, and Dr. Remi Duyile are the organizers and panelists for the Empowering Women Through Education and Community Action Panel. ·  The panel's theme is "How Education and Community Initiatives Equal Empowerment." ·  The session will explore how education and grassroots programs can significantly transform lives, particularly for women and girls. ·  Angela Feng is the president of Soroptimist Taipei International, Girls Power, a female non-profit organization recognized by the UN and Taiwan. ·  Cindy Wu is a trilingual financial management professional, singer-songwriter, and motivational speaker, involved with the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW). ·  Dr. Remi Duyile is a Nigerian-American, a UN ambassador of peace, and the founder of Legacy Premier Foundation, a global developmental non-profit. ·  The discussion will delve into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how these goals relate to women's empowerment ·  Angela, Cindy and Dr. Remi the work that they have done with each of their respective organizations ·  Angela, Cindy and Dr. Remi talked about their early role models and the challenges they have overcome in their careers. ·  The panel aims to provide practical insights and inspire action, moving beyond abstract concepts of women's empowerment. ·  The women want to provide action steps, and resources to the audience ·  Soroptimist International of Taipei Girls Power focuses on education for young women, from elementary school through college. ·  The Legacy Premier Foundation focuses on financial literacy, and providing access to resources to underserved communities, and teaches skills that are needed in the market place. ·  The International Federation of Business and Professional Women works to create opportunities for women through promoting employment, and protecting rights.   Related Links:  

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Local Interaction Basis: Identifying Computationally-Relevant and Sparsely Interacting Features in Neural Networks, published by Marius Hobbhahn on May 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is a linkpost for our two recent papers, produced at Apollo Research in collaboration with Kaarel Hanni (Cadenza Labs), Avery Griffin, Joern Stoehler, Magdalena Wache and Cindy Wu: 1. An exploration of using degeneracy in the loss landscape for interpretability https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10927 2. An empirical test of an interpretability technique based on the loss landscape https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10928 Not to be confused with Apollo's recent Sparse Dictionary Learning paper. A key obstacle to mechanistic interpretability is finding the right representation of neural network internals. Optimally, we would like to derive our features from some high-level principle that holds across different architectures and use cases. At a minimum, we know two things: 1. We know that the training loss goes down during training. Thus, the features learned during training must be determined by the loss landscape. We want to use the structure of the loss landscape to identify what the features are and how they are represented. 2. We know that models generalize, i.e. that they learn features from the training data that allow them to accurately predict on the test set. Thus, we want our interpretation to explain this generalization behavior. Generalization has been linked to basin broadness in the loss landscape in several ways, most notably including singular learning theory, which introduces the learning coefficient as a measure of basin broadness that doubles as a measure of generalization error that replaces the parameter count in Occam's razor. Inspired by both of these ideas, the first paper explores using the structure of the loss landscape to find the most computationally natural representation of a network. We focus on identifying parts of the network that are not responsible for low loss (i.e. degeneracy), inspired by singular learning theory. These degeneracies are an obstacle for interpretability as they mean there exist parameters which do not affect the input-output behavior in the network (similar to the parameters of a Transformer WV and WO matrices that do not affect the product WOV). We explore 3 different ways neural network parameterisations can be degenerate: 1. when activations are linearly dependent 2. when gradient vectors are linearly dependent 3. when ReLU neurons fire on the same inputs. This investigation leads to the interaction basis, and eventually the local interaction basis (LIB) that we test in the second paper. This basis removes computationally irrelevant features and interactions, and sparsifies the remaining interactions between layers. Finally, we analyse how modularity is connected to degeneracy in the loss landscape. We suggest a preliminary metric for finding the sorts of modules that the neural network prior is biased towards. The second paper tests how useful the LIB is in toy and language models. In this new basis we calculate integrated gradient based interactions between features, and analyse the graph of all features in a network. We interpret strongly-interacting features, and identify modules in this graph using the modularity metric of the first paper. To derive the LIB basis we coordinate-transform the activations of neural networks in two steps: Step 1 is a transformation into the PCA basis, removing activation space directions which don't explain any variance. Step 2 is a transformation of the activations to align the basis with the right singular vectors of the gradient vector dataset. The 2nd step is the key new ingredient which aims to make interactions between adjacent layers sparse, and removes directions which do not affect downstre...

On this episode of the Ed Branding Podcast we welcome Mountain View School District Trustee Cindy Wu. Trustee Wu is a former newcomer, English Learner/Plurilingual Scholar and a first generation college student who earned degrees at both USC and UCLA. She is a Founding Member of AAPI Well UnTapped, Founding Secretary of the National Parliamentarian Association, GUnit 2022 Women of the Year in the field of Education, Los Angeles County, Past President, Los Angeles County School Trustees Association, and Co-Founder, AAPI Women in Politics (EmpowHer).Mountain View School DistrictInstagramWe'd love to hear from our listeners!Connect with Dr. Renae Bryant:TwitterInstagramLinkedInConnect with Lynette White:ConnectEDTwitterInstagramLinkedInLynette White

Cindy Wu, vice president of marketing for Sukhi's Gourmet Indian Food, joins us for this episode of the Food For Thought podcast. In today's episode, she and Andy Hanacek discuss the growth in popularity of Indian cuisine and how Sukhi's is doing its part to help build growth in those flavors and styles in the U.S. In addition, Wu offers her insights into how processors of frozen and refrigerated foods are responding in the wake of inflation and food price increases, as well as the trends driving those categories heading into 2024.

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Season 2 of Under The Lights, Presented by Danimals Baseball concludes with a star-packed guest list including Nacho Libre, Kawhi Leonard, Justin Ushio and more! Danimals Media Team: Jarin Kobashigawa and Cindy Wu

Happy Holidays from the Danimals Baseball Franchise! On our Holiday episode we are joined by our lovable catcher, Chayson Dulatre and OG Danimal, Michael Nishiki Danimals Media Team: Jarin Kobashigawa, Ryan Nakamura, Cindy Wu

With the 2023 HBL Fall Ball Season coming to an end and with Mistah Coach finally coming up for some air after being nose-deep in da books, we are finally back with season two of Under The Lights, Presented by Danimals Baseball! On this episode, we recap the historic Fall Ball season, choose which Danimals are what Spongebob characters, and quiz Cindy on her baseball IQ. Mahalo to our sponsors Growler Hawaii, Aloha Capz, Aloha Mitts, and BarberFitHi Danimals Media Team: Jarin Kobashigawa, Cindy Wu, Jaelin Sonoda

What constitutes a good workday break, and how can breaks impact both productivity and health? Cindy Wu and Emily Hunter from Baylor's Department of Management studied these topics, and their research broke new ground and shattered a few long-held myths. In this Baylor Connections, Wu and Hunter help listeners consider their own workday breaks and how to effectively utilize them for benefits on and off the job.

Dr. Ralph Ford, chancellor of Penn State Behrend, talks with Yingxin “Cindy” Wu, winner of the 2023 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award, about her experience as an international student at Behrend. 

In this podcast, you will hear a panel discussion moderated by Dr Cindy Wu, AbbVie, from the 2022 PODD Conference regarding opportunities for long acting injectable biologics, stability, manufacturing processes, storage, release periods, and new delivery technologies including conjugate-based delivery. Panelists include: Brent A Buchine, PhD, Windgap MedicalFrederic Dargelas, PhD, MBA, DelSiTechMarc Hendriks, PhD, DSM BiomedicalMatthew O'Brien, PhD, Genentech To learn more about the PODD Conference, please visit PODDConference.com.  

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   I'm always interested in listening to other podcasts and to learn about Taiwan-related ones. Late last year I heard about the Bilingual aka Bailingguo (百靈果) News Podcast because there was an episode that generated some heated discussion on Forumosa.com, among English-speaking foreigners in Taiwan. Forumosa is an online discussion forum for English-speakers about Taiwan and in full disclosure, they have been a sponsor of Talking Taiwan.   I was wondering what all the controversy was about so I spoke to my friend Cindy about it and this led to a discussion about how foreigners are viewed in Taiwan and oddly enough the discrimination that overseas Taiwanese sometimes experience in Taiwan.     Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   One of the most popular podcasts in Taiwan the 百靈果(Bilingual) News Podcast How an episode of the 百靈果(Bailingguo) News Podcast generated a lot of discussion amongst the English-speaking expat community in an online discussion forum on Forumosa.com What the discussion on Forumosa.com was about If the slang term lao wai (老外) that refers to foreigners in Taiwan is insulting What makes the 百靈果(Bailingguo) News Podcast so controversial How people have compared the style of the hosts of the 百靈果(Bilingual) News Podcast to Joe Rogan and Howard Stern Why the English-speaking expat community on Forumosa.com were upset by the episode People's opinions of the 百靈果(Bailingguo) News Podcast The discrimination that foreigners experience in Taiwan The discrimination that some overseas Taiwanese experience in Taiwan     Related Links: To view all related links for this article, click link below: https://talkingtaiwan.com/bilingual-podcast-discrimination-that-overseas-taiwanese-experience-in-taiwan-talking-with-cindy-wu-ep-166/

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Cindy Wu is an English and Mandarin Chinese bilingual performer, speaker, and music educator based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She loves and enjoys all aspects of life, travel, and culture. I met Cindy years ago when I lived in Kaohsiung. I've invited her on to Talking Taiwan to speak about her music career and how she's dealt with the setbacks and challenges that she's faced along the way. When asked about how she's been able to impact the lives of her students, she responded that it's her students who have impacted and inspired her with their love support. Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: • How Cindy and I met in Taiwan • Cindy's background and connection to Taiwan • When she immigrated to the United States • What brought Cindy back to Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2005 from the U.S. • ORIENTED.com and how Felicia organized ORIENTED.com Happy Hours in Kaohsiung • Where Cindy's love of music came from • How Cindy first learned piano by attending Yahama classes • How the time she spent at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY affected her • How Cindy uses music to educate kids • How Cindy began teaching piano, violin and singing in Taiwan • How the perception of the Taiwanese language has changed over time • What Cindy's done in her music career • The challenges that Cindy deals with as a vocalist • The voiceover work that she does • How Cindy started her first livestream show • Why she stopped doing her livestream show for a year • Cindy's approach to her livestream shows and how she deals with criticism, haters and trolls • Cindy's children's book, Sunny Girl's Dream World • Cindy's approach to teaching junior high and high school students • The opportunities that Cindy's livestream show has brought her • How Cindy works with the Oxford Institute and is on the board the Global Leadership and Learning Association • How Cindy helps students get a dual high school diploma Related Links: To view all related links for this article, click link below: https://talkingtaiwan.com/cindy-wu-music-educator-in-taiwan-speaks-about-her-music-career-and-positivity-ep-165/

My guest this week is fellow Houstonian, Cindy Wu, Program Manager with Houston Welcomes Refugees. Cindy studied at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and has written an incredible workbook for believers looking to expand their practical theology on the topic of refugees called A Better Country. Cindy’s passion for serving refugees was birthed in her at a … Continue reading Episode 120 – Cindy Wu

Cindy Wu is the Programs Manager for Houston Welcomes Refugees, author of A Better Country" Embracing the Refugees in Our Midst, and co-author of Our Global Facilities: Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World. On this episode, Cindy shares her heart for the refugee community. Through her work with refugees in Houston, she is able to live out her desire to be among the nations and to seek justice for the vulnerable- an interesting and often times overlooked intersection. She expresses how important it is for everyone to take notice of the refugee community in their area, and shares practical ways to help create a better community for refugees in their resettlement country.

In this episode, I’m interviewing Cindy Wu. My good friend Cindy is the Honorary President of the HK Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine and the Vincent & Lily Woo Foundation, She is also the Head Martial Arts teacher at the Mandarin Flagship Hotel in which she specialises in Qi Gong.Both Cindy and Cindy’s grandmother Mrs. Lily Woo are amazing women. Lily Woo was the Director of Po Leung Kuk (which is an organisation here in Hong Kong that supports orphaned children, education and other charitable services) When I mentioned to Cindy about She Means Bizness, both Cindy and I agreed that we had to tell her grandmother’s story. Mrs.Lily Woo was a woman who fully embodies, “She Means Bizness”. For Cindy, “She Means Bizness” makes her think of a female who knows exactly what she wants; a woman who doesn’t mess around. A woman who sees a target and goes for it and doesn’t get deviated. Cindy also appreciates that nowadays it is socially acceptable for women to be entrepreneurs or to go into business. Some say that Mrs. Lily Woo was born in the wrong era. She had all the ingredients to be a successful business person but during her time it was not socially acceptable for a woman to be a successful business person. Now, we are so blessed to have the opportunities we have and the possibilities are endless. Cindy's Message:We are fortunate to be born in an era in which it is okay for us women to succeed at what we are good at. We have all the resources and all the emotional support to achieve everything that our grandmothers wish they could have done. Now, we can do it for them.Follow Cindy on Instagram to keep up-to-date with her impact-driven inspirational journey here:Instagram: @cinnaqi     I hope this episode has been a contribution to you! What was your takeaway from this episode? Do you have a story to share about your grandmother? Please share your thoughts and experiences by dropping a comment down below. I  would love to hear from you! Rooting for your success,Stacy

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"We find holes in the ground and then we…explore them. And it kind of feels like maybe what Neil Armstrong felt like when he first stepped foot on the moon."SNP’s founder Maureen Taylor talks to Cindy Wu, co-founder of Experiment and Jelly Labs. They talk about how Hawaii has changed how she designs software, her belief in science equity, and her unusual love of caves.Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas. Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

On this episode of San Francisco inFLUX, Julio Lara and Erin Reeves reacts to the key points brought up by the speakers of SPUR's "Re-Envisioning the Planning Commission" panel and break down the best of the ideas brought up during the evening. EVENT DETAILS: Planning commissions across the country advise elected officials and municipal departments on the appropriate growth and development of their cities. But complaints about these bodies and the processes that they undertake can be extensive — from regularly scheduled hearings that are all but inaccessible to the public due to location and timing, to politically appointed commissioners not accurately representing the city whose growth they oversee. How could the planning commission process be improved? Join us for a series of rapid-fire presentations about the tweaks, evolutions and transformations that planning commissions could undertake to better suit the needs of today’s cities and their residents.+ Chirag Bhakta / Mission Housing + Laura Foote / YIMBY Action + Ron Miguel / Better Market Street Community Advisory Committee + John Rahaim / San Francisco Planning Department + Cindy Wu / Chinatown Community Development Center+ Milicent Johnson / San Francisco Planning Commission + Tyra Fennell / Imprint City+ Michael Yarne / Social Construct 

Cindy Wu is the co-founder of Jelly, an online platform for all things science. A second-generation immigrant, she joins the show today to share her experience growing up and how she came to be the co-founder of two science-based businesses. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2Qglquk 

Join us this week as we sit down with Cindy Wu from Houston Welcomes Refugees and discuss the refugee crisis happening around the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Cindy Wu and Denny Luan are the founders of experiment.com - a platform that allows anybody to request funding for a science project and anybody to fund them. It's fascinating because it stands completely outside of the grant funding and publication system that drives most science today. In this podcast we discuss how the current system prevents the creating of new fields, why science communication may be even more important that science funding, and new models for company governance.  Key Takeaways The incentives built into the grant system make it hard for new fields to emerge Arguably, changing how science is communicated might have the biggest impact on our knowledge creation system. The concept of ownership and governance of companies being two separate axes that need to be considered separately Resources Experiment.com The Science of Science Funding DIY biohackers trying to see infrared with vitamin A Innocentive Public benefit corporation Purpose Trusts Wellcome Trust/Foundation Employee Owned Breweries Topics Consolidation and risk aversion in science Hard to fund research outside of funding buckets Field politics Hard for younger scientists to get funding NIH budget stayed the same, proposals have doubled Government funds what's popular CERN is a consortium of companies doing funding Only real solution is disseminating knowledge DIY biohackers trying to see infrared with vitamin A Digging up dinosaurs No money to prepare dinosaur bones Incentives for science Brewery example of employee owned corporation New models for funding businesses Ownership and Governence Axes Making scientists stakeholders in Danger of masking philanthropy as investment and vice versa Would VCs ever fund something that's not purely for profit New Company structures

Guest preacher Cindy Wu explores John 17:20-26 and Jesus' commissioning prayer. Learn more about Houston Welcomes Refugees. We would love to hear how God is working in your life. If you would like to share your own story or prayer requests with our pastoral staff, please send an email to pastor@ecclesiaclearlake.org Email Pastor Coby at coby@ecclesiaclearlake.org Learn more about Ecclesia Clear Lake Sign up for our eBlast newsletter You can give online to support the ministry and mission of ECL.

How do you feel about funding scientific research, particularly medical research? How efficient, effective and fair is the grant system in deploying billions of taxpayer dollars? Are funds targeted towards diseases proportional to their occurrence in patient populations? Are the influences of disease specific non-profit groups helpful or hurtful? Are the interests and activities of biomedical companies aligned with the needs of you, and your patients? Well, if you think there's room for some serious improvement, today's episode is for you. Cindy Wu was a young undergraduate student at the University of Washington, working on a way to modify an enzyme treatment for anthrax, using a videogame. (which, by the way, is a heck of a lot more than I was doing in college) Eager to find funding for her idea, Cindy approached her professor. “Cindy, [he responded] the system doesn’t fund people like you...It only funds tenured professors.” Although he ended up helping her by sharing money from one of his own research grants, Cindy had taken her first glance at the huge world of underfunded, and undiscovered science. Cindy wanted to do something, but she needed help. She discussed the problem with her friend, Denny Luan, a fellow student with a software background. The amazing solution they came up with was pitched to silicon valley investors in 2013, at Y Combinator. That three minute pitch brought in 1.2 million dollars in initial startup funds, and Experiment.com, a unique crowd funding platform for scientific research was born. Like early stage investing, it's easy to see this space as early stage research. Bill Gates has described Experiment as a, "solution [that] helps close the gap for potential and promising, but unfunded projects." Most research in gap can be funded by as little as 5 to 10 thousand dollars! We know what you're thinking. 5-10 grand? Maybe for a university science fair, but certainly not for legitimate medical research. As we're seeing though, technologies such as CRISPR gene editing, 3D printing and artificial intelligence are already lowering the costs and barriers to researchers in ways that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This will only continue, and companies like Experiment are leading the way into this undiscovered country. With that said, we're happy to bring you the founders of Experiment, Cindy Wu and Denny Luan....

What is the biggest humanitarian crisis of our day? It's refugees, says author Cindy Wu, who joins Nathan again to talk about her new book about refugees. The issue is vast and complex, but Cindy shares simple and practical ways for us to welcome the stranger in our midst.

Cindy Wu is the CEO & Co-Founder of Experiment, a platform for funding scientific discoveries. Cindy co-founded experiment right after school. We talk about her journey to launch, her time at Y-combinator, and discuss how she built her team, thinks about product, and her views on growth. www.experiment.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.breather.com www.claralabs.com www.taskbullet.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns/ The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Cindy Wu, co-author of Our Global Families, lives in the most racially diverse county in America (in Houston). In this timely episode Cindy gently cuts through misconceptions about refugees and shares how caring for the stranger is easier and more rewarding than one might think.

For over 25 years Jim has been serving the church in Houston Texas by working to mobilize individuals and congregations into collaborative efforts that are designed to serve the common good. In this podcast series Jim is talking to community leaders in Houston and across the country who are working to build more loving communities as a systemic solution to the big challenges that our communities face today.  In this podcast Jim and Cindy Wu explore the what it looks like when we are fully present and fully committed to our communities.  Our Global Families: Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Chancing World by Todd Johnson & Cindy Wu  A brief overview: The impact on Cindy and her family by connecting with her neighbors.  How connecting with our communities brings a broader perspective which is a vital part of why we need to know our neighbors How does Cindy's heritage impact her perspective on building community?  Cindy talks about religious demography and specifically Christian demography and how the data she is finding paints a picture of how the world and the church is changing Shares some key concepts from Our Global Families that give insight into building loving communities. 

This is the sixty-fifth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Cindy (on Twitter @ CindyWu), the co-founder of Experiement, a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. Cindy has a bachelor of science in cellular, molecular and developmental biology and she’s written several peer-reviewed articles. But when she started to look for funding to take a new drug to market she quickly realized there was a major problem. Experiment launched and was later accepted into Y Combinator. Today, more than 350 projects have raised more than 4 million dollars. Cindy joins us to share her story, why she helped launch Experiment, how they got accepted into YC, how they closed a seed round in 10 days, and much more!