Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author. She is married to the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. As first lady, Obama served as a role model for women and worked as an advocate for poverty awareness.
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author. She is married to the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and was the first African-American First Lady. 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 Barack Obama. She subsequently worked in non-profits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. Michelle married Barack in 1992, and they have two daughters. As first lady, Obama served as a role model for women and worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. Her paternal great-great grandfather, Jim Robinson, was born into slavery in 1850 on Friendfield Plantation, near Georgetown, South Carolina. Her extended family has said that people did not talk about the era of slavery when they were growing up. Her distant ancestry includes Irish, English, and Native American roots. The Robinson and Shields families trace their roots to pre-Civil War African Americans in the American South. On her father’s side, she is descended from the Gullah people of South Carolina’s Low Country region. Other of their children’s lines migrated to Cleveland, Ohio in the 20th century. All four of Robinson’s grandparents had multiracial ancestors, reflecting the complex history of the U.S. Her paternal first cousin once-removed is Rabbi Capers Funnye, who is about 12 years older than Michelle.
She attended Whitney Young High School and Whitney Mawr Elementary School in Chicago. She was determined to stay out of trouble and to be a good student, which was what her father wanted for her. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which had a profound emotional effect on her as she was growing up as a child. She frequently saw both sides of her family on both sides, and frequently visited her extended family on the South Shore. She played piano, from her great-aunt, who was a United Methodist teacher at nearby South Shore Church. The Robinsons used to vacation in a rustic cabin in White Cloud, Michigan, and used to go to church at White Cloud United Methodist Church. Her grandfather Fraser Robinson, Jr. built his own house in South Carolina, He and his wife LaV Vaughn Robinson, returned to the Low Country from Chicago after retirement. He is a former mayor of Chicago and served as mayor of the city’s South Shore community area in the 1980s and 1990s. She has a daughter, Malia, and a son-in-law, Sasha, who were both born in 2008 and 2009. She also has a brother, Craig, who skipped the second grade and went on to attend college in Washington, D.C. and graduate from Harvard University. Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school, and her father was a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson, a secretary at Spiegel’s catalog store.
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