Maya Krieger-DeWitt is a senior at Nauset High School in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She spent half of her junior year studying abroad in Israel, and teaches Hebrew at her synagogue. Maya will be attending American University to study International Relations in the fall.
Maya Krieger-DeWitt’s poem has us rethink the fairy tales we grew up with and the messages we send to little girls.
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