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About Scott Abrahams

Scott Abrahams skipped class one day and ended up in his college cafeteria talking to a classmate who convinced him to go teach English in China for a year. Up to that point his entire experience with Asia had been writing a play for a friend’s Lunar New Year Festival celebration. Scott spent the summer working at an English language program for high schoolers in northern China and then the academic year in a public middle school in the south. After experiencing the country as someone who knew very little about it, he went on to earn a master’s degree in China Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. Scott was born and grew up in Chicago (both city and suburbs if you’re asking). He used to work for the Federal Reserve, but recently decided to trade in one government for most of them by becoming a consultant at the World Bank