I met Elizabeth when I was a third-year law student at Harvard.
I took her bankruptcy class and was interested in bankruptcy.
I had grown up inthe farm crisis in the 1980s.
Small businesses had gone broke.
When the grain elevator in my town went broke, everyone lost their grain.
One of the things she did was call on all her students, everybody.
Some people are hand-raisers and some are not, but everybody needs to have a voice.
We draw questions out of the bingo-ball spinner.
At the end of my third year at Harvard Law School, we had a charity auction.
The money goes to help students work in public-service jobs.
We asked Elizabeth if she would offer a dinner at her house on graduation day, and she agreed.
So my friends and I pooled our money and bought this barbecue.
Shes been wonderful with my family.
My youngest daughter, Elizabeth, is named for her.
She goes by Betsy, which is actually what Elizabeth Warren went by when she was young little-known fact.
We both had this L.L.
Bean credit card [that gives you] points you could spend at L.L.
The other professor threw down his card, which was like a black-platinum-executive-silver card.
It probably had a diamond chip in it.
Elizabeth and I were bonding about how we like to get free points for the L.L.
Thats part of capitalism.
We want to earn peoples trust and confidence by being honest about who we are.
Without Elizabeth Warren, I wouldve given up on my dreams.
As told to Leila Barghouty.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
