…got it from people around her: her teachers, extended family members, and most of all her parents.
“You hear people talk about the effect of arts in their lives, no matter what their profession is,” she said. “At some point, there was an arts class, a music class, a dance class. It wasn’t that they became artists, but it opened their minds up to possibilities, and it opened their world up.”
“I had great parents,” she said. “I had an upbringing with all the creature comforts, and I had a strong community around me, but it was full of people who recognized me and said, ‘Hey, I expect something of you.’ Nobody let you fall through the cracks. … We owe that to all of our children.”