Meaza Bahiru Heterat grew up in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where her business-owner parents were committed to ensuring that their nine children got a good education—and all have attended university. On her way to elementary school one day, Heterat remembers passing by an open market area, where she first saw crowds of rural people who had migrated to the city in search for work. “I recall asking why people were there—why were they lying around on the ground? I wondered if they had families.” This early experience galvanized her resolve to do something in development to alleviate poverty in her country.