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Scott MacMillan is a former freelance journalist who now works as a writer and communications specialist covering poverty and development issues for BRAC and BRAC USA, the organization’s affiliate in the US. He has spent most of his working life in developing countries, covering the transition from communism in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s as a business journalist, then working as an editor and freelance writer in the Middle East. As a travel writer, his work has taken him throughout Southeast Asia, China, India, and Africa.

Maria A. May (@mariamayhem523) is a senior program manager for BRAC’s Social Innovation Lab and the Microfinance Research and Development Unit in Dhaka, Bangladesh.