One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Many African Americans are living less than one paycheck away from hunger. When people hit sudden hard times, including illness, loss of job or disruption in health insurance, they are forced to turn to the America's Second Harvest network for help.

The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.