I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.