Breadcrumb Home Rao goes from homeless to MBA graduate Monday, May 19, 2014 Quad City Times http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2014/05/17… Cheeni Rao was once a homeless drug dealer on the streets of Chicago, but he eventually earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he's now added an MBA from the UI Tippie College of Business.