Chi-Dooh Li is a partner at the Seattle law firm Ellis, Li, and McKinstry and founder of Agros International. He is known to his friends as “Skip” a shortened version of the nickname “Skipper” which he earned as a 4-year-old while bossing British soldiers around the Chinese diplomatic compound in Malaysia. His father was a Chinese Diplomat, and by his 17th birthday he had lived in 8 countries across 4 continents. He came to the United States for college and eventually settled in Seattle where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Seattle Pacific University. In 1970 he earned his law degree from the University of Washington, and has been a practicing lawyer ever since. In 1982 he was gripped by the idea that if he could help the poor of Central America buy their own land, they could break the cycle of poverty. To begin this work he returned to his former home, Guatemala, at the height of its 36 year civil war. In the midst of great uncertainty and risk to his life, Skip went up against 400 years of institutional injustice and began helping the poor of Central America achieve land ownership. Today, the non-profit organization Agros International, which he founded to do this work, has established 42 villages in 5 countries which have directly benefited the lives of tens of thousands of people.