Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.