📍Bangladesh. Aria and I went to college together and lived in the same dorm our freshman year. I knew her before she started Mai Soli and got to watch her build it from the sidelines. While we went to school in suburban Massachusetts, her organization worked across the world in Bangladesh. Their goal is to end child-marriages by providing young girls an alternative path to being financially stable in life. At a young age, she has learned what it takes to be a social entrepreneur and tackle complex problems.

UN Sustainable Development Goals: 1 · No Poverty, 5 · Gender Equality, 10 · Reduced Inequalities