I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

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.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants.

When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

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