03
Mar
Not every philanthropist who funds policy research has a direct personal stake in the question being studied. Jean-Pierre Conte does. His parents arrived in the United States from abroad — his father from France following the Nazi occupation, his mother from Cuba in search of independence and a different kind of future. Both came with limited resources and considerable determination. Both built lives that made the next generation's ambitions possible. Jean-Pierre Conte traces much of his own professional trajectory to the mentorship and access that opened to him because his parents were here. That history is why Jean-Pierre Conte established…
