Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.