Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
I've never personally been anorexic.
We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
I don't think fashion is evil.
When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
I'm a dork!
My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
