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Kimi Waite, Ph.D., is yonsei/fourth-generation Japanese American and the 2021 California Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Her writing has appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Progressive, The Emancipator, and elsewhere.