Born and raised in suburbia New Jersey, Jatin grew up just 25 miles east of Princeton University. Having a lifetime obsession with food and the magic of hotels, Jatin pursued his bachelor’s degree in hotel management at Cornell University and then threw it away by spending the next three plus years as an investment banker in New York. Feeling dissatisfied with his life choices, he quit his job, packed his bags, and left for Namibia where he served as a community economic development volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps, focused on women’s empowerment, capacity building, and government investments. After returning to the United States, with two Namibian kittens in tow (Lily and James), Jatin worked at an immigration nonprofit, volunteered with a financial empowerment nonprofit, a literacy nonprofit, and an education nonprofit. In May 2019, Jatin completed his 2-year MBA from Yale University, during which he worked at a tech accelerator in Kenya, worked on an impact evaluation for a large-scale Sierra Leone electrification project, and co-founded a sustainable clothing start-up in Connecticut that he worked on full-time the summer prior to joining Princeton. This past summer, he interned with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. Upon graduating from Princeton, Jatin would like to advise foreign governments on adopting supportive policies relating to public-private partnerships with for-profit social enterprises. Additionally,  he would like to foster some kittens.