Michelle Obama
of the United States, Barrack Osama, and the first African-American First Lady
of the United States. She was born as Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama on
17th January, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois to her parents Frasier Robinson, was a city
pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain and her mother, Marian, and
was a Spiegel's secretary who later stayed home to raise Michelle and her older
brother. Though she grew up in a two-story house on Euclid Street in Chicago's
South Shore community area, her family has a great bonding where all the family
members shared meals, read and played games together. She and her 21 month
older brother, Craig, dropped the second grade. She got the opportunity to join
gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School now it is named as Bouchet Academy
where she learned French and took accelerated courses. Michelle completed her
graduation with a B.A. in Sociology in 1981 from Whitney M. Young Magnet High
School in Chicago's West Loop as class salutatorian. After Hillary Rodham Clinton
and Laura Bush she is the third First Lady with a postgraduate degree.
In 1988 she attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked
at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama.
After two years of dating they married at Trinity United Church of Christ on 18 th
October, 1992 and blessed with two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha.
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She went on to earn the degree of Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1988,
where she took part in demonstrations demanding more minority students
and professors. She went on to earn a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988,
where she took part in demonstrations advocating more minority students and
professors.
She left her job to pursue her career in public service, serving as an assistant to
Mayor Daley and after that she joined as the assistant commissioner of planning
and development for the City of Chicago.
In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a
non-profit leadership-training program that helped young adults develop skills for
future careers in the public sector.
In 1996 she associated as dean of student services with the University of Chicago
and at the beginning of 2002, she worked for the University of Chicago Hospitals,
as executive director of community relations and external affairs.
In May 2005, she was appointed vice president of community relations and
external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she continued
to hold the position as a part timer.
She sits on six boards, including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs
and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
She serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
She served as a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods.
In May 2007, after three months her husband declared his presidential candidacy,
she reduced her own professional work by 80 percent to support his presidential
campaign and family at a stretch. She wrote her own stump speeches for her
husband's presidential campaign and generally spoke without notes. She got her
first exposure by joining the presidential campaign.
After becoming 44th first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has
volunteered at homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the Washington, D.C. area.
She also sent representatives to schools and advocated public service. On her
first trip abroad in April 2009, she toured a cancer ward with Sarah Brown, wife
of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She has begun advocating on behalf
of military families and helping working women balance career and family,
and encouraging national service, promoting the arts and arts education, and
fostering healthy eating and healthy living for children and families across the
country. She has earned widespread publicity on the topic of healthy eating by
planting the White House Kitchen Garden.
In 2012, she announced a new fitness program to make progress in reversing the
21st century trend of childhood obesity. She, the U.S. Olympic team and other
sports organizations have teamed up to inspire young people try out a new sport
or activity.
To promote healthy eating in print, Obama released a book as part of her mission,
American Grown: the Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens
across America. She also associated with United States Department of Defense, to
face an ever expanding problem of recruit obesity.
As a couple both Michelle and Barack Obama always give priority to their two
daughters, Malia and Sasha and try to lead them live a normal life with set times
for study, bed, and getting up.
Though some media often draws attention by labeling her as an "angry black
woman," she was featured in Essence magazine as one of "25 of the World's
Most Inspiring Women." Then in September 2007, Michelle was listed in 02138
magazines as number 58 in "The Harvard 100," a list of the most influential
alumni for the year. She has also made the Vanity Fair best-dressed list two years
in a row, as well as People Magazine's 2008 best-dressed list due to her sense of
fashion.
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