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EVITA Robinson LEADING A NEW WAVE OF TRAVELERS

When Evita Robinson was teaching English in Japan back in 2009, she remembers kids running down the hallway at elementary schools in Niigata and skidding to a halt when they saw her. “I was the first black person many of these students had ever seen in real life,” Robinson I was a Martian to them.”

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