I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.