“What are they going to put on your headstone? ‘Mark worked one extra year?’” a friend asked him during that time in the summer of 1996. It was “damn good advice,” Carrato remembers. He let his law school deferral go, continued teaching in Japan for another year, and then traveled the world for nearly 16 months, ending up in Ecuador teaching again.
Now a foreign service officer at the helm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power Africa program, Carrato is continuing a life of service looking outward. Born in Japan to an international…
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