I also knew that my prior experienc

I also knew that my prior experiences in Africa would shape my thinking and
direction. Arriving at MIT, I was quickly swept up into an intense teaching assistantship
with D–Lab, a series of courses at MIT in which students learn about technology and
development and implement technical projects with community partners around the
world. In the course of learning to be a TA, I was exposed to the entrepreneurial spirit of
the students at MIT who often conceived of their D-Lab projects as ways to form
businesses. This led me to think seriously about my own experience in Kenya managing
operations for the NGO Mikinduri Children of Hope (MCOH).
Moreover, this was about the time that I had begun to engage wit