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Michelle Obama Researched via: wikipedia

Michelle Obama Researched via: http://wikipedia.org. Student Name: Chante’ Solomon Date: 4/20/09. Who is Michelle Obama?.

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Michelle Obama Researched via: wikipedia

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  1. Michelle ObamaResearched via: http://wikipedia.org Student Name: Chante’ Solomon Date: 4/20/09

  2. Who is Michelle Obama? • Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the first African-American First Lady of the United States. • Michelle Robinson was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago.

  3. Michelle Obama’s family: • She met Barack Obama when they were among very few African Americans at their law firm, Sidley Austin, (she has sometimes said only two, although others have pointed out there were others in different departments) and she was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate.Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. The couple's first date was to the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing. The couple married in October 1992, and they have two daughters, Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha (known as Sasha) (born 2001) .

  4. Michelle Obama’s Education: • graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. • At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." "I remember being shocked," she says, "by college students who drove BMWs. I didn't even know parents who drove BMWs." She obtained her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. While at Harvard, she participated in political demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who are members of minorities. She is the third First Lady with a postgraduate degree, following Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Bush

  5. Michelle Obama’s Career: • She served as a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. ,a major Wal-Mart supplier with whom she cut ties immediately after her husband made comments critical of Wal-Mart at an AFL-CIO forum in Trenton, New Jersey, on May 14, 2007. She serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

  6. What do I like the most about Michelle Obama? • Succesful black woman • Polite • Looking to better herself and other people

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