It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

I think Twitter is great.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.