Protima Daryanani was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where she lived for eight years. Military coups and changing politics in Nigeria led to the family moving to London. Growing up as an Indian in England, she learned to pick the best of each culture: an emphasis on family and tradition and a love of British “puddings!" Her travels to see family in India and the US and proximity to mainland Europe instilled a life-long wanderlust. “We used to come to the US to visit my cousins,” she says. “I just had a sense that this was the place I was meant to be.” Protima attended Brown University in Providence and law school at Emory University in Georgia, where she “ grew to love a grit.”