I'm A New Yorker, You Know.

I Just Like Working With Smart People.

Most People Don't Relate To And Can't Generate Concern For Something They Don't Encounter Personally Or Feel Personally Affected By. People Have To Have The Palpable Negatives In Their Lives Dissected For Them In Ways That Let Them Understand The Root Causes Of Unhealthy, Unhappy Conditions In Their Lives And Then Be Allowed To Really See And Feel The Positive Alternatives.

To Cite My Own Alma Mater, It's Shocking To Me That Yale University Can Teach What It Teaches At The Yale School Of Environmental Studies And Utterly Fail To Mirror Those Values In Any Way In Its Investment Practices.

When I Was Very Small, I Had That First-time-you-see-a-play Experience, Which Immediately Made Me Want To Act, Because It Seemed Like This Incredible Outlet For Something I Was Already Doing Fairly Compulsively Anyway, Which Was Putting On Hats And Costumes And Doing Funny Voices. It Was A Very Natural Compulsion For Me.

I Think We Really Feel Like Crowdrise Could Be Something That, 20 Years From Now, People Take For Granted Because That's Just How You Do It, Like If You're Going To Raise Money For Something, That's How You Do It.