After decades of successful anti-poverty and community development work, including being the guest of President Clinton (along with Rosa Parks) at the 1999 State of the Union, Mauricio Lim Miller harbored doubts about existing approaches to addressing poverty. Recalling the wisdom and resilience of his mother, who as a struggling immigrant and working single mom had somehow figured out how to lift her children out of economic dependency, Miller set out to re-design programs from the bottom up. He now leads a movement around "peer-driven change" -- where families are entrusted and supported to make decisions to lift themselves and one another up, rather than being “saved” from themselves or directed by caseworkers about what to do with the assistance they receive. His highly recognized initiatives are heralded for successfully enabling low-income families to contribute to society as “makers,” not “takers,” and as representing a fundamental, promising shift in the design of social programs.