I never would have dreamt in a million years that I would have young girls coming up to me at Glastonbury or on the streets of L.A., New York, London, and telling me how much GurlsTalk or seeing my picture in a magazine means to them, as a woman of colour.

How can our industry better represent the reality of our larger community and provide our next generation a proper example of what they see around them every single day? This representation should also look beyond race and include those of all body types, religion, sexuality, and gender identification.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

Gurls Talk is my baby. It's just about opening up a space within schools where we as women and girls can talk about whatever we want.

We want to have markets that are self-policing through competition. The Internet community doesn't want the government coming in and regulating it.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.