A Story of Two Worlds

Pava Marie LaPere
6 min readOct 14, 2018

I’m on the path to live a successful life. She’s on the path to live in poverty. How did we get here?

Wealth inequality in Mexico City.

I’m born to loving parents in the suburbs of Tucson.
She’s born to a loving mother in inner-city Baltimore.

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My mom stays home with my brother and I, there to help us with homework and take us to music lessons.
She watches her brother as her mom

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Pava Marie LaPere

A Baltimore-based innovator passionate about using entrepreneurship to drive ground-up economic growth.