 There were a lot of days where I would say to myself in the morning, okay, I'm going to visit two schools today, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and then I'll come home. And I would only make it to one school because it was hot and I was exhausted. That gave her a new perspective on how climate and infrastructure can impact a country's progress. Now she runs an after-school program in a neighborhood in Boston, a city that was new to her.