Teacher: Jihoon Lee
School: Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Seattle, WA

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "What I find his story especially inspiring is that although he was once a slave, once he gained his freedom, he devoted himself to contributing to his own community in his own way—building bridges. Maybe he realized that lack of mobility restricted people’s imagination of the countless possibilities in life."

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