I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.