I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.