Waka T BrownWaka T. Brown was the first American born in her family. She is a Stanford University graduate with a master's degree in secondary education. She is an instructor at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education,authoring curriculum on several international topics and winning the Association for Asian Studies' national Franklin Buchanan Prize. She has also won the US-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. While I Was Away is her debut book. Read More Read Less