About the Author

Suzanne Skees works in international development as director of the Skees Family Foundation. She holds masters' degrees in English literature from Boston College and world religions from Harvard Divinity School. Suzanne Skees has authored a book published by Hyperion and has worked in publishing as a book editor for Houghton Mifflin.

The Skees Family Foundation (SFF) is a small nonprofit comprised of thirty family members across three generations. SFF provides seed-funding, advisory, and storytelling support for innovative programs for self-help out of poverty via education and enterprise in the U.S. and developing economies around the world. SFF, launched in 2004, has become known for its networks of social entrepreneurs and intuitive seed-funding of pragmatic poverty-alleviation programs.