India, Nov. 12 -- You've spent years listening to people whose lives have been shaped by displacement, loss and prolonged uncertainty. Has that experience changed your understanding of yourself?

Yes, forever. I think this genocide [in Palestine] has changed me forever. This genocide has brought out a person that I didn't know before. I didn't know I would have this voice for justice inside me. I didn't know that justice mattered so much to me. I think this is also a reflex, because standing for what is right, it is something that is contagious.

Do you think there is a point at which our admiration for people's resilience risks obscuring the conditions that they should never have to experience in the first place?

I don't celebrate resil...