When I was in high school, my best friend was being molested by her stepfather. That experience drove me to want to protect others.

Not everyone can take their safety for granted, and that’s something I realized early on.

There’s still so much work we need to do to ensure children have a voice.

My parents met when they were activists in the civil rights movement.

We need to help people get through a hard time, not let them fall through the cracks.

America is a hopeful country, and we have to keep that hope alive.

We need to push back against the forces trying to divide our country.

My mother had every Aretha Franklin album. We would gift her the latest one for Christmas or her birthday.

I saw the importance of translating passion from the streets into the courtrooms of America.

In every one of those groups, sometimes over 10,000 people, you're seeing exactly who we are as America.

We need to value our communities and put the resources into building them up.

We're all in it together, and that's the way forward for America.

We created a whole unit dedicated to making sure that abused children had dignity and justice.

We are all in this together. That's how we move forward.

It's about creating policies that help people live with dignity.

The heroes of the civil rights movement were lawyers like Thurgood Marshall, who fought for justice in the courtrooms.

It pains me to see the kind of division that has taken place in our country.

That child who came through the door was somebody’s most special thing in their life.