Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.