'No one wants this more than me': Chinese American Lindy Li determined to become youngest woman to serve in US Congress
Her parents emigrated from China to England and eventually to the United States when Lindy was five years old.
Lindy Li hates to lose. In fact, she may not even know the meaning of the word. She's shown that time and again. Like when she persuaded her parents to let her transfer from public high school to a prestigious all-girls prep school by earning a scholarship.
Or when she knocked on 1,200 doors across campus in her first year at Princeton while campaigning for the class presidency. Or at her 2012 graduation, when she was told to skip her address as class president so that keynote speaker Steve Carell could give his speech sooner and the poncho-clad graduates could get in out of the rain.
"Steve said: 'Just go up there, who's going to stop you?'" she recalls, after she bemoaned her predicament to the comedian backstage. "So I did."
She just does. It's as simple as that. Now, Li wants the biggest something yet - a seat in the US House of Representatives.
If she wins in November 2016, when she'll be 26, she would be the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress. That's four years younger than the current titleholder - upstate New York Republican Elise Stefanik,who was elected at 30. And still four years too young to even think about running for the US Senate.
There are, of course, a few hurdles in her way. First, she's running as a Democrat in one of the most gerrymandered congressional districts in the country - Pennsylvania's 7th, which seeps westward like a lopsided H from the outskirts of Philadelphia and contains swathes of five different counties.
Some chunks are no wider than 240 metres across. It has gone Republican in both congressional and presidential races since 2010.