 It's always concerned me that the majority of the world's population is living in poverty. I've been focusing on grassroots development to empower people to find local solutions and be able to overcome obstacles that are institutional, systemic, through politics and economics to bring a model where local citizens can educate each other and provide solutions with green technologies to overcome the obstacles to development. It's really validated to be able to bring academia into the field and actually put it into practice in innovative and experimental iterative projects with communities on the ground.