Your dad got a doctorate in philosophy with a major in watershed management from the university of arizona. Your mother is an adviser and writer who has decades of experience at the world ank, the u. N and other organizations. How did your incredibly prolific parents influence you? They influenced me very deeply. My father describes himself as a hydroulogist, and my mother describes herself as a culturan anthropologist. And she would work in villages to develop very simpl games and techniques that would bring villagers together.