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.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

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

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.