The year Ann Marie Oliva contracted malaria in Kenya was the year she promised herself she would dedicate her life to fighting poverty if she made it out alive. For four months, Oliva, then a junior in college, lived at sea as part a study-abroad program. The ship had rounded the southern tip of Africa and was crossing the Atlantic, when Oliva, severely anemic with a 108-degree fever, was helicoptered off to a hospital in Brazil. “It sounds kind of hokey, but I think that sort of solidified for me my intent to do something meaningful,” Oliva said. Read full article >>