Michelle Obama (née Robinson) is the First Lady of the United States as she is the wife of the 44th President, Barack Obama. She is the first African-American First Lady, and met her husband while working at a law firm in Chicago, Illinois. Born and raised in the notorious South Side of Chicago, she attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before working at Sidley Austin, the law firm where she met her husband. Obama also worked for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and the University of Chicago Medical Centre, before in 2007/8 helping her husband in his Presidential campaign.
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Michelle Obama is the mother of two daughters; Malia and Sasha Obama, and is the sister of Oregon State University basketball coach Craig Robinson
While at Princeton University, Michelle Obama studied sociology, with a ‘minor’ (concentration without a qualification) in African-American studies, where she graduated cum laude in 1985
During the Presidential campaign, Michelle Obama was labelled an ‘angry black woman’ by some media sources. Mrs. Obama shrugged off these comments, but later in the campaign she was noted to be projecting a softer character to the public, appearing less on news sources and more on women’s talk shows and appearing in publications such as Ladies’ Home Journal
In 2006, Essence magazine put Mrs. Obama the list of the ’25 of the World’s Most Inspiring Women’.
Mrs. Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs – a nonpartisan organisation that encourages the discourse of world issues by contributing to opinion and public learning
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