In 2010, she launched Let’s Move!, bringing together community leaders, educators, medical professionals, parents, and others in a nationwide effort to address the challenge of childhood obesity. Obama has continued her efforts to support and inspire young people during her time as First Lady. As Associate Dean of Student Services, she developed the university's first community service program, and under her leadership as Vice President of Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center, volunteerism skyrocketed. Obama joined the University of Chicago with a vision of bringing campus and community together. She served as assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago's City Hall before becoming the founding executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program that prepares youth for public service. Obama decided her true calling was working with people to serve their communities and their neighbors. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1988, she joined the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she later met Barack Obama, the man who would become the love of her life.Īfter a few years, Mrs. Marian stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother Craig, skillfully managing a busy household filled with love, laughter, and important life lessons.Ī product of Chicago public schools, Michelle Robinson studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University. Fraser was a pump operator for the Chicago Water Department, and despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at a young age, he hardly ever missed a day of work. The Robinsons lived in a brick bungalow on the South Side of Chicago. When people ask First Lady Michelle Obama to describe herself, she doesn't hesitate to say that first and foremost, she is Malia and Sasha's mom.īut before she was a mother - or a wife, lawyer, or public servant - she was Fraser and Marian Robinson's daughter.
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