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What are the Biggest Issues Facing Your Generation?

America Ferrera, photo by Henny Garfunkel / Retna for TIME

That’s what TIME magazine asked 25-year-old actress America Ferrera in this week’s ’10 Questions’ interview. Her response makes us want to chase her down to be a She’s the First celebrity supporter! She said:

Where do you even begin? For me, it’s the treatment of women in the world. There are women who still have no chance to get an education. There’s no hope for them to get beyond what the men in their world dictate for them.

Read the full interview with America on time.com. How do you think She’s the First and America could work together to spread the word about the importance of girls’ education worldwide and get young women excited about fun, social fundraisers to sponsor girls?

For the record, according to her Wikipedia page, America is the first-ever TV Actress to have won all 3 major Lead Actress Awards in a single year, including the Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. It was also just announced today that she will be co-executive producing “the first-ever interactive telenovela, developed for both television and the Web” with MTV. Go America! A woman of the world.