Joann Frasier DasentJoann Frasier Dasent is the founder of Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. Its mission is to use the art of storytelling to promote literacy as a means of reaching the various types learners in a multiultural society. Joann holds a M.A. Degree in the Oral Traditions. Joann aka Auntie Jo Jo goal is to find effective ways of passing on fables, saying and stories to the next generation with the hope they will do the same for the generation after them. Auntie Jo Jo has received numerous grants for her storytelling work within the Philadelphia and tristate area. Among them a foundation allocation to partner with Master Storyteller Mama Linda Goss the project title Straight Up and Fly Right. The project focused on the importance of fables, folktales and storytelling as fostering guidelines intrinsically woven into African-American culture. Auntie Jo Jo's retold fable A Farmer, His Son and Their Mule, exemplifies this deeply held heritage through the 20th century language and imagery. Her newest retold folktale, One Cool Windy Day On Table Mountain was inspired by her reading of Diane Wolkstein's The Cool Ride In The Sky. Read More Read Less