As a fourth-generation Rockefeller, Peggy Dulany had been raised in a family that valued philanthropy and giving back to the community.
But it wasn’t until she spent a year living in a squatter’s settlement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working on a child vaccination program, that she began to develop her own philanthropic philosophy and to think critically about what the obstacles to fighting poverty really were.
“From my experience in Rio, I was able to see the amount of will and creativity people living in poverty have to get out of it,” she told Devex. “But more than money, what they lacked was connections and access.”
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Malia Politzer
Malia Politzer is an award-winning long-form journalist who specializes in international development, human rights issues and investigative reporting. She recently completed a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs in India and Spain. For three years, she worked as a feature-writer at Mint, India’s second-largest financial newspaper, where she wrote about international development, strategic philanthropy and impact investing. She holds an M.S. journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Stabile Fellow for Investigative Journalism, and a B.A. from Hampshire College.
