Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.