The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

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?'

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.