Dalia Mogahed

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it. ”

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. ”

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions. ”

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. ”

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. ”

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice. ”