Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn't have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work - and a lot of financial aid - I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

And what has been just completely heart warming is to see that people are really hungry for something different.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way.