I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

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.

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me.