His father was an ob-gyn at SUNY Upstate Medical University and his mother was a family planning specialist. Leslie and his three siblings attended Jamesville-DeWitt High School. "I left the States to travel around the world in 1978...and never quite got home," Leslie wrote in an email to a syracuse.com reporter. Formerly the director of Save the Children Nepal , Leslie manages social accountability for PRAN , a World Bank project based in Nepal. After the April 25 earthquake devastated Kathmandu, Leslie and his family created one of the most successful GoFundMe sitesfor Nepali relief, called the Nepal Villagers' Earthquake Fund. The page has raised $142,518 in just over two weeks with donation nearly 700 different donors from all over the world, including the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, France and Norway. For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/05/syracuse_native_rai

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