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Irina Y. Starovoytova, a teacher of English and American Studies at Tambov School #6 in Tambov, Russia, created this retelling of a traditional Russian fable especially for Teaching Tolerance.

Vanessa Hua is a freelance writer and editor in Southern California. She has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association.

Dr. Amanda Morris is an Associate Professor of writing and rhetoric at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship and much of her public writing and speaking engagements focus on contemporary Indigenous rhetorics. Her academic writing can be found in Rhetoric Review, Epiphany, WSQ, Journal of American Culture, Enthymema, South Atlantic Review, and the books Stand Up Comedy and Rhetoric (Routledge, 2016) and Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination (Peter Lang, 2018).

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, the nation’s leading institution for educating African-American men. While matriculating at Morehouse, he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and initiated into the Pi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. After graduating summa cum laude from Morehouse with a B.A. in history in 1994, Jeffries enrolled at Duke University, where he earned a M.A. in American history in 1997, and a Ph.D. in American history with a specialization in African American history in 2002. While completing his graduate work

Kauanoe Kamana is a founding member of 'Aha Punana Leo. The article was adapted by permission from Native Americas (Summer 2000), a journal of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.

William Wilson is a founding member of 'Aha Punana Leo. The article was adapted by permission from Native Americas (Summer 2000), a journal of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.

Julie Weiss is an education writer with a commitment to social justice. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies, has taught at the college level and now develops curricula, textbook materials and assessments.