As Katherine always says, if the politicians won't do anything, we'll just have to become the politicians someday. |
It was a really fortuitous time to come to Dartmouth. |
That was kind of hard to deal with. Her dad smoked, and, as a journalist, she had worked in an environment where a lot of people smoked. |
The doctors were astounded to know she wasn't a smoker and said second-hand smoke was the cause of her illness. |
What can be frustrating [is that] you have this one thing that you're really passionate about, but you don't know how to actually make anything happen. And for me, coming into my life when it did, Ignite was this fantastic opportunity to band with these absolutely amazing and incredibly smart people who felt the same way I did. There was this fantastic sense of relief and solidarity that there were these people that already cared about this and had put together this network. |