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Michelle Obama: Said At The Democratic National Convention

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michael lavaughn robinson Each of us comes here tonight by way of our own improbable journey,” Michelle Obama said at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

motivated by a simple sense that… we have a commitment to fight for the world as it should be.”

Michelle Obama’s journey began on Chicago’s South Side, where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, instilled in her a deep love for family, hard labour, and education.

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Her father worked for the Chicago Water Department as a pump operator, while her mother stayed at home with Michelle and her older brother Craig.

She learned that “the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your aspirations and your desire to work hard for them” as she witnessed her father fight multiple sclerosis, walk to work with two canes, and save money to send her to college.

Michelle Obama graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree and Harvard Law School with a juris doctorate. She returned to Chicago in 1988 to work for Sidley Austin.

She met Barack Obama, a summer associate she was assigned to mentor, there. They tied the knot in 1992.

Michelle Obana had shifted her focus to public service by that point. Before becoming the founding executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies.

AmeriCorps programme that prepares young people for public service, she worked as an assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago’s City Hall. She became associate dean of student services at the University of Chicago in 1996.

where she created the university’s first community service programme. She joined the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2002 and rose through the ranks to vice president of community and external affairs in 2005. Malia and Sasha Obama, the Obamas’ daughters, were born during this time.

Michelle Obama, as first lady, launched Let’s Move!, a campaign aimed at eradicating childhood obesity within a generation.

Elected officials, business leaders, educators, parents, and faith leaders collaborated to provide more nutritious food in schools, bring healthy and affordable food to underserved communities, plant vegetable gardens across the country.

And provide new opportunities for children to be more active through it. Every year, local kids assisted her in planting and harvesting the garden she began on the South Lawn of the White House.

Its fruits and vegetables were served at the White House and donated to food banks and soup kitchens.

Michelle Obama spearheaded the Reach Higher Initiative during Barack Obama’s second term to help students understand career prospects and the education and skills required for those professions.

She urged students to continue their education beyond high school at technical schools, community colleges, and colleges and universities.

She advocated for girls’ and women’s education all throughout the world. “Never regard your hurdles as obstacles,” she advised City College of New York graduates in a commencement address.

It’s a lesson she’s lived by her entire life. Mrs. Obama worked to support veterans and military families during her time in the White House.

During their eight years in the White House, she also focused her talents on what she calls her most important role: MominChief to her children, who matured into accomplished young ladies.

The biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are taken from Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey’s book “The Presidents of the United States of America.

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