How can a child (or anyone else!) move from deep poverty toward a happy, productive life? A thoughtful talk at the October 2021 "Black Heroes of Mathematics" conference by Maurine Atieno Songa suggests factors that can work together to catalyze success:
- identifiable heroes
- dreams beyond one's current surroundings
- financial resources
- encouragement
- long-term career vision
Ms Songa went from a rural village in Keyna to her current place as a PhD student of Category Theory at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She credits a combination of these forces.
How to improve the odds for others to do likewise?
(sketch thanks to LOOPY, an ultralight tool for systems thinking ©2021 MITRE Corporation ...) - ^z - 2021-10-25