I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

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

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.

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.