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Michelle Obama
First Lady of the United States from to
"First Lady Michelle Obama" redirects here. For the painting, see First Lady Michelle Obama (painting).
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama[1] (néeRobinson; born January 17, ) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from to , being married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met her future husband. She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. Later, she served as vice president for community and external affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in , and they have two daughters.
Obama campaigned for her husband's and presidential campaigns. She was the first African-American woman to serve as first lady. As first lady, Obama worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She has written three books including her The New York Times best selling memoir Becoming () and The Light We Carry ().
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I’ll never forget the day that Barack announced his candidacy for president in Springfield. February 10, was bitter cold —about 12 degrees. It was the kind of day where you might think twice about leaving the house if you didn't have to.
I remember being backstage with the girls. Sasha was fussing over her pink hat, and I wondered if Malia was warm enough in her scarf. None of us really could have understood what was about to happen—how we were all about to take a journey that would catapult our family onto the national stage.
When we got outside and I looked up, I noticed there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky. But when I looked out to the crowd, there were people as far as my eyes could see. These people had come from all over the state. Some of them were locals, some of them carpooled, others bussed in with their church group. They were people of all shapes and sizes, different backgrounds and identities. Strangers who had become friends as they waited around in the cold—all bound by their belief in us, in the promise of my husband, and of the vision he laid out for our country.
Seeing them out there on that freezing February day made me think: this could actually work. We could actually do this. And thanks to all of you, that’s exactly what we did. Do you
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