My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.

Food is a reflection of who you are as a person.

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

My dad was the first man I ever loved.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

In 2006, I made the decision to go after my dream. I was living in Atlanta and had a promising career in marketing, but I took a leap of faith and decided to move to New York, enroll in graduate school, and pursue acting.

It's kinda cool to have friends that just do good.

I did study religion at Northwestern, and it was a very interesting time for me because I think it was the beginning of my personal journey in this understanding of the purpose that religion serves in our culture and in our individual lives. It serves to ground us and be our moral compass.