Tal Goldfajn is a linguist, translator and translation scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies department. Together with her students at UMass Amherst she founded the Pipa Project initiative for the promotion of translated children’s literature and multilingual storytelling.

Fernanda Rivitti is a Brazilian literature teacher, storyteller and dance therapist. She is currently an Expressive Arts Therapy graduate student at Lesley University and member of The Pipa Project, an initiative for the promotion of translated children’s literature and multilingual storytelling.