One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.

The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.

Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.

Change always starts with a girl.