Nate Yohannes, his three siblings and their parents were exiled from Eritrea shortly after the country’s war for independence in 1991. They ended up in Rochester, New York. Every winter when he goes home to visit, Yohannes says, he jokingly asks his parents: Why such a seemingly random, bitterly cold city? But he knows the real answer.
Image: President Barack Obama and Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator of the Small Business Administration, in 2014 (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
