I had this pile of documents that exposed how this industry was trying to hook people to killing themselves and to make a profit, and then I was seeing this incredibly tangible way to fight back and prevent the tobacco industry from leading people to their deaths.

This is why this fight is really a social justice issue for me. In the end, millions of people are addicted to killing themselves and multinational corporations are profiting from it.

And there, in that kitchen, I became determined to start Ignite.

It just so happened that I was going to be her advisor for the Presidential Scholars program that summer.

Ignite just held our first annual National Day of Action, on which, for the first time, students all across the country simultaneously pressured politicians to stop looking the other way.

Eventually, this may mean we actually get college students to run for state and local office. There have definitely been instances of college students being elected to public office before. And, to my knowledge, they didn't have one capstone social justice issue like this to run on.