- Every time I do a speech, every time I work with students, every time I work with adults or organizations, one of my biggest tips is root everything in empathy.

- How does it help you solve a problem?

- The big thing is, it helps me always think of the bigger picture, right?

I am always recognizing, oh, like, this is why I'm doing what I'm doing.

This is why I'm learning so much.

This is why I, like, try and gain different skill sets.

This is why I spend so much time in a lab, is by realizing that if no one else is going to take that first step.

I had a lot of people ask me, oh, I thought you were in Flint, Michigan.

I thought you lived there.

What made you living all the way in Colorado want to do something about this?

And I really just think it was that bigger sense of motivation, empathy, putting myself in these people's shoes and recognizing how truly, deeply unfair it is.

And the second we're able to kind of allow that empathy to be in every single student and almost teach that sense of empathy, not scare them, but teach them how important it is to look at the world's problems and recognize it as some of their own, as one big community, that's what's gonna help us take that next step.