It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.