My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

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

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

My most important identity now is as a mother.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

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.'

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.