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Denver Post
By Todd Watson

It was the first semester of Katie Singleton's senior year at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2006, and she was already thinking about the summer of '07. While her friends were planning typical post-graduate vacations - cruises in the Caribbean or backpacking trips through Europe - Singleton was hoping to do something more meaningful.

Then she met a classmate's mother, Patricia Hinnen, at a party in October 2006. Hinnen, a former foreign aid analyst for the federal government, now directs the microfinance program of The International Alliance for Women (TIAW).

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