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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.