It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'