Maite Wantwadi is originally from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I migrated to the United States in 1997. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Afterward, Maite decided to sign up for City Year, an AmeriCorps program that provides math and literacy interventions to youth in elementary to high school in math and literacy. She did one year in Miami, FL and another year in Denver, CO providing whole school environment positivity and providing afterschool and social-emotional learning programs. Through this experience, she realized that her passion was working with youth but she wanted to provide education in a different way. Next, Maite began working with YouthBiz, an entrepreneurship organization that taught middle and high schoolers how to start their own business. It was then, that she fell in love with entrepreneurship and decided that is what she wanted to do. A couple of years later, she joined Young Americans Center for Financial Education, where she currently works as the Entrepreneurship Director.  Maite’s hope and dream are to start a STEAM school in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in her grandfather’s village. She wanted to learn more about development, and its importance, and how to measure development in order to be able to provide the help needed. So, she applied to Regis University’s Master of Development Practice program where she is excited to learn more about development and how to put measures into practice.