Sarah Siddiqi

She is a dreamer in every sense of the word. Her visions are clear as daylight, "Put Bangladesh on the MAP" and her chosen path of doing this is through sustainable tourism. This positive spirit was born in her grandmother's home in the same port town of Chittagong as Dr.Yunus of Grameen Bank. Even though she was raised in the same neighborhood as Hamid in the Middle East, her life has been on a vastly different track. She married very young, graduated fron UT in Environmental Biology and Fine Arts, and became a serial entrepreneur since.

She sold her art throughout college, started three companies, and did everything from being a graphic designer to market strategist. She combined her passions for art, networking, culitvating diversity & tolerance, by working with non-profit leadership/social impact programs, being the arts director for Cultural Societies in the Austin community and serving as the liasons in inter-racial group programs.

After ten years, this mother of three went back to school to get her MBA in entrepreneurship from one of the top rated Entrepreneurship schools in the country called Acton this year. During her summer at Grameen, she discussed her vision of sustainable tourism in Bangladesh through Grameen. She arranged tours for the Grameen interns, after which she fell in love with Bangladesh like never before. She has already started the groundwork for pursuing her dreams of establishing tourism there. Other other passions include culinary arts, yoga and Aikido.