“I lost a lot of people that were close to me in those towers, and also a lot of contributors to the fund,” she says. "I had a meeting with the seed investors [which included the Rockefeller Foundation and the Cisco Systems Foundation] who asked me what my response to 9/11 would be if I were king. I said, ‘I would go to the Muslim world and demonstrate what people there are capable of building.’ I raised a million dollars and then thought, ‘Oh gosh, where do I start?’" She feels strongly that she has a duty to be in places that others would deem too dangerous. Full Article at The National Newspaper