A lifelong traveler, Linda was born in London and raised between London and Beijing. She studied Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cambridge, before starting an M.B.A as a Silver Scholar at the Yale School of Management. She is interested in the intersection of technology, international development and innovation. Prior to the Kiva fellowship, she took on a variety of internships and roles to explore these three themes. These included interning at the UN World Food Programme in Rome and at the Ericsson graduate program in its Digital Services division in Stockholm and Johannesburg. Linda is excited to explore the fields of microfinance and mobile money during her Kiva fellowship across Southern Africa before she returns to Yale to complete the second year of her M.B.A. program.