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Maya Okonkwo spent her childhood hauling water more than a mile each way before school. Today, she designs clean water systems that serve tens of thousands of people across three continents, and she says every problem she solves starts with the same seven-year-old question: why do we have to do it this way?
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Marcus Webb spent three years perfecting the art of going unnoticed after bullying reduced him to silence. By seventeen, two million people had watched him speak on a global stage, and he was only getting started.
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