Her father, John Kerry, was at the time an influential US Senator. The now Special Presidential Envoy for Climate had served in the Vietnam war and the visit was meant to instill in his teenage daughter an understanding of the stark divide between their world and the developing one. After finishing courses at Yale University and Harvard Medical School, she started volunteering in Uganda and Rwanda. “There just weren’t enough healthcare providers and the ones there were were often flying in and flying out, never really transferring skills or investing in those places,” she thought to herself.
