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Take Time To Learn About The Lives Of Women Around The World-and Try To Play A Small Part In Their Fight To Create The Future They Deserve.

Childbearing, I Mean, If There's No Place To Go To Deliver Your Baby, Then You're The One That's Delivering In Those Unhealthy Circumstances. Or If You Can't Get Access To Family Planning, Your Chances Of Surviving And Being Able To Bring Your Kids Up If They Come One Right After The Other, That Locks You Into A Cycle Of Poverty.

We Look In Our Own Backyard And Say, 'how Do We Help At-risk Families, At Risk Youth? How Do We Think Through Some Of The Problems Affecting The Pacific Northwest And Make Some Change There?'

I Am Catholic, I Was Raised Catholic, I Am A Practicing Catholic. But I Say We Need To Agree To Disagree. We Have A Shared Mission Around Poverty, And I Focus On That, Because We Do A Lot With The Catholic Church Around Poverty Alleviation. I'm Always Looking For: What Is The Common Thread? What Do We Care About? What Do We Believe In? We Believe In Women Around The World. We Believe In All Lives Have Equal Value.

My Undergraduate Work Was In Computer Science And Economics. It Just Happened To Be At That Time When 34 Percent Of Computer-science Majors Were Women. We Didn't Realize It Was At The Peak At The Time.