When I was in high school, my best friend was being molested by her stepfather. That experience drove me to want to protect others.
I realized that not everyone can take their safety for granted.
We're the underdogs in this campaign, but we have the energy to make real change.
We have to remind people that we are all in this together and build spaces where everyone feels they belong.
We can't have a country and policies that let people fall through the cracks.
We need to value our communities and put the resources into building them up.
America is a hopeful country, and we have to keep that hope alive.
In every one of those groups, sometimes over 10,000 people, you're seeing exactly who we are as America.
The heroes of the civil rights movement, like Thurgood Marshall, inspired me to go to law school.
We created a whole unit dedicated to making sure that abused children had dignity and justice.
The child who walks through the door of a school is someone’s most special person in their life.