Waka T. Brown was the first American born in her family. She is a Stanford graduate with a master’ s degree in secondary education. She’ s currently an instructor at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), authoring curriculum on several international topics and winning the Association for Asian Studies’ national Franklin R. Buchanan Prize. She’ s also been awarded the United States– Japan Foundation and EngageAsia’ s national 2019 Elgin Heinz Outstanding Teacher Award for her groundbreaking endeavors in teaching about US-Japan relations to high school students in Japan and promoting cultural exchange awareness. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
