We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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