Honestly I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom and coming to the States was really academic.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor so I come from a very academic background. I love writing you know?

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa in the late 1950s I thought what a wonderful marriage this was biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social emotional physical cultural and academic skills.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.'