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I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her daughter. I'm so grateful that she is Charlotte's and Aiden's grandmother. She makes me proud every single day.
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People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'
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My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
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Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
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That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.
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We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
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Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
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Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
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My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
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Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
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Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
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It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.
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Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.
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Determination gets you a long way.
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Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.
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Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
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A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
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I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.
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I love living in New York.
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I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.
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I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.