This chapter chronicles a career spent at the intersection of micro and macro forces in development. Macro forces such as public policy or ideology intersect with individual developmental trajectories in mutually constitutive ways in my research – across topics such as immigration, poverty reduction policy, and forced displacement. I intertwine narrating the development of these themes in my career with a more personal narrative of how micro interactions in my life (particularly with mentors across psychology, anthropology, and economics) intersected with macro policy and societal change across the last three decades.