Interview: Michelle Obama
Interviewee: Michelle Obama
Interviewer: Katie Couric
Date: 14 February 2008
Michelle Obama talks about her role as a wife, mother, and campaigner. She narrates how she and Barack Obama met, what kind of person Barack is on a personal note, and what makes Barack different from the other candidates. She also describes her life on the campaign trail and how her two young daughters are dealing with their father’s increasing popularity and with the reality that their father might be elected president. Obama also talks about the causes that she will be advocating for if her husband becomes president.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American lawyer and the wife of Senator Barack Obama from Illinois, who is a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for U.S. President. She was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1981, she graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School; and in 1985, graduated cum laude from Princeton University obtaining a degree in sociology with a minor in African American studies. She then attended Harvard Law School and obtained her J.D. degree in 1988. After graduation, Obama worked for a Chicago law firm, Sidley and Austin, as an associate in the field of marketing and intellectual property. In 1991, she followed a career in public service as an Assistant to the Mayor and then Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development for Chicago City. In 1993, she became the founding Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, which is a non-profit organization that conducts leadership-training program to young people for public sector careers in the future. In 1996, she served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed its first community service program. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Hospitals.