#WooWho: “I was born and raised in the
#Bronx; my mom was a community organizer and my dad built low-income housing. My parents modeled for me and my siblings the importance of doing work that serves people. After studying
#anthropology at uncchapelhill, I worked internationally for several years. There were times when I would feel embarrassed by my presence in poor rural villages because it was so obvious that I had no skills to immediately help anyone there. At one point I was working for worldfoodprogramme on a food security assessment in
#Burma, trying to determine if the country was producing enough food to feed its people. We were traveling by helicopter and arrived in a remote village where I surveyed a man who lived in a small hut with his wife and three kids under age 5. I asked a question about protein consumption, and he answered that they infrequently eat meat because they only are able to when he goes into an adjacent national sanctuary and poaches a monkey. He gestured to...