Amee Parbhoo was born and raised in the United States to parents who were originally Indian. With a father born in Kenya, she travelled between the US, India, and Kenya as she had family in these regions. The experience exposed her to the difficulties that people there faced, fuelling her desire to work on providing solutions to these problems.
“My dad grew up in Kenya so I’ve always kind of grown up with family in all parts of the world, in India and Kenya and the UK. I spent time travelling to those places, so I’ve always had a perspective of what it’s like growing up in those places and what some of the challenges are. I knew I wanted at some point in my career to be working there and helping to address some of the problems that I’d seen all through growing up.”
The first step to achieving this goal was getting an undergraduate degree in political science and economics from Davidson College, a liberal art college in North Carolina. During the summers, she worked with…
