For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

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 loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

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

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

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