A Sweater Altered It All

How to Bridge Rich-Poor Gap

• By Tricia Miller
• Roll Call Staff
• March 10, 2009, Midnight

Jacqueline Novogratz, 47, didn’t set out to write a memoir. When she began working on “The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World” in 1996, she only wanted to tell the stories of women she had met in Rwanda before genocide tore the tiny African nation apart.