A Celebration of Women™

is taking today to Celebrate the Life of an amazing, grassroots, loving Woman that is ever reaching for better and always achieving her goals, all the while helping others.

This Woman has become the nurturing Mother to a Nation,

“Taking Action” for the Future of Society: The CHILDREN.

…a TRIBUTE

 
 

WOMAN of ACTION™

 

 

First Lady, Michelle Obama

 
 

Family History

 

Fraser Robinson Sr., Michelle Obama’s great-grandfather, lost his arm after a childhood injury became infected. Also pictured is his wife, Rosella Cohen Robinson.

 

MICHELLE ROBINSON OBAMA – THE EARLY YEARS

Born on January 17, 1964, Michelle Robinson was raised in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago’s South Shore.
 

 
Of note is that she shared a “bedroom” with her brother, but it wasn’t much of a bedroom. It was actually the living room with a divider down the middle.
 

 

Humble Childhood Home…..”Michelle is really Human.”

MICHELLE OBAMA:

Southside Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Utt-6HumUU

 

Parents

 

 

Michelle’s father, Fraser Robinson III, died in 1991 at age 55 from complications from multiple sclerosis, two years before she married Barack, but her mother is still alive and maintains the same one-bedroom apartment, protected by a burglar-proof wrought-iron door and secured windows, for when she visits Chicago. “The White House clarified Tuesday afternoon that First Lady Michelle Obama’s father is buried at Lincoln Cemetery, not Burr Oak cemetery.

 

 

Michelle’s Mother, MARIAN ROBINSON, moved into whitehouse “kicking and screaming“; but carved out herself a peaceful, purpose filled life….and, enjoys grandchildren.

Education

 

 

Sociology at Princeton University,

graduating with Cum Laude Honors in 1985.

 

 

From there she attended Harvard where she earned her law degree in 1988, one year ahead of her husband-to-be, Barack, whom she hadn’t met yet but attended the same law school.

 

MICHELLE AND BARACK MEET

 

 

In 1989 she was asked to mentor a summer associate from Harvard named Barack Obama. According to reports, Barack didn’t have much interest in corporate law, but did have a lot of interest in Michelle.

 

 

Apparently Michelle Robinson initially brushed off advances from Barack because they were working at same firm…and he was an intern and she higher up the law firm’s foodchain as an associate.

 

 

But “LOVE” prevailed and they were married on October 1992.

 

 

Interestingly Barack and Michelle waited almost seven years before having children. Their first daughter name Malia Ann Obama was born in 1999 with Natasha (often called “Sasha”) following two years later in 2001.

When asked about what made her fall in love with him she replied:

“for the same reason many other people respect him;

his connection with people.”

 

 

Even though her husband is the center of attention, Michelle has zero concerns about fidelity in their marriage. She told Ebony magazine in March 2006,

“I never worry about things I can’t affect, and with fidelity . . . that is between Barack and me, and if somebody can come between us, we didn’t have much to begin with.”

 

MICHELLE’S ROBINSON OBAMA’S CAREER

 

After Princeton, Obama attended Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard, Michelle accepted a position at a downtown Chicago law firm. Though she spent the bulk of her time at Harvard working for the Legal Aid Society, upon graduation in 1988, Obama joined the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin LLP where she was eventually assigned to mentor a summer associate: another Harvard law student named Barack Obama.

Michelle’s impressive resume includes: Former associate dean at the University of Chicago; a member of six boards of directors including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and Tree House Foods; and Vice President, Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

 

In this position she was responsible for all programs and initiatives that involve the relationships between the hospitals and the community as well as management of the hospitals’ business diversity program.

 

 
In 1993, she founded Public Allies Chicago which provided young adults with leadership training for public service careers. As executive director, she headed up a non-profit named by President Bill Clinton as a model AmeriCorps program.

 
In 1996, she joined the University of Chicago as Associate Dean of student services, and established its first community service program. In 2002, she was named the University of Chicago Hospitals’ executive director of community and external affairs.

MICHELLE OBAMA’S INFLUENCES ON BARACK’S POLITICAL CAREER

 

Michelle first served as assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daly; later she became Assistant Commissioner of planning and development.

 

 

Michelle’s professional relationships were helpful when her husband in 2004, then a state Senator, ran for the United States Senate, where he faced a primary dominated by some of the Democratic Party’s most powerful political families.

 

 

In this 2004 race, Obama had the support of influential black business leaders, some of whom had closer ties to his wife than they did to him. According to Newsweek, a former boss of Michelle Obama’s, a powerful black woman Valerie Jarrett, chair of the Chicago Stock Exchange, served as finance chair of Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign.

 

MICHELLE OBAMA: THE MOM & WIFE

After Barack was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack and Michelle choose to keep their children in Chicago, where Michelle continued her career as well. “We made a good decision to stay in Chicago so that has kept our family stable,” Michelle Obama told the Chicago Tribune.

 

 

Every Sunday the family attends services at the

Trinity United Church of Christ.

 

 

According to reports, Michelle has mastered being a mother, career woman and the wife of a politician.

 

 

When Newsweek magazine trailed her in 2004, the reporter could not help but notice a to-do list for her two daughters Malia and Natasha that included time for “play.”

She is in bed most nights by 9:30 and rises each morning at 4:30 to run on a treadmill. This level of discipline and organization helps her manage her public and private pressures with poise.

 

In New Yorker Magazine,

Michelle noted that the “Life of a Political Wife” is:

“hard and that’s why Barack

is such a Grateful Man.”

 

 
But there’s more to it. “Barack didn’t pledge riches” Michelle explains to Newsweek.

“Only a life that would be interesting;

On that Promise…..

He’s Delivered.”

 

Today, this First Lady of the United States of America is c

aring for the Future of a Nation, through her Foundation, close to her heart named: Let’s Move, one that focuses on CHILD OBESITY in America…a disease greater than one would ever guess.

 

Let’s Move will give parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country.

 

 
Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity.
 

Learn more and Join us.

 

WEBSITE: http://www.letsmove.gov/

 

 
BEYONCE WRITES A LETTER …
 

 
First Lady Michelle Obama is launching a new grassroots initiative to get out the vote for President Obama’s reelection campaign this November.

Her new effort, “It Takes One,” encourages voters to inspire others to get involved in the campaign themselves. In her preview video released this morning, Mrs. Obama speaks directly to voters, inspiring them to take the time to encourage just one more supporter to get involved in campaigning, or to get one more voter out to the polls in November.

“That one new voter you register in your precinct, that one neighbor you help get to the polls on November 6 – that could make all the difference,” the first lady said. “That could be the difference between waking up on November 7 to the promise of four more years, or asking yourself, ‘Could I have done more?’”

 

 

WHAT IS ‘SOCIAL MEDIA’ SAYING: Michelle Obama Fan Club on Facebook

The Michelle Obama Fan Club (TM) loves and supports our amazing 1st Lady. Michelle Obama is one of the most highly respected and admired women in the world. This group is dedicated to supporting her and her humanitarian efforts in the United States and around the world and to being inspired by her brilliance, wisdom, wit, fashion, gardening, mothering, and so on! And we are going to have fun doing it!

Can you believe it? In April, 2011 we formed this club and look how we have grown. Our amazing 1st Lady deserves our support and love. Thank you so much for all the love and support you have given me as the Founder of this club. This club is yours, now. We have nearly 13,000 members and almost 1000 members in Georgia alone. We could change the outcome of the election in that state. Nothing can support Michelle more than helping her club grow, because the members of this club WILL BE REGISTERED TO VOTE AND VOTE. So, as a giftt for Michelle, please add one or two friends, who you know love and respect Michelle. Soon, we will be out making a difference in this upcoming election.

I love all of you! I’ve made such wonderful friends here. What a blessing you have been in my life.

Carolyn

 
 
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On Twitter
 

This picture of Barack and Michelle Obama hugging one another was posted to Obama’s social media accounts following news of his victory in his presidential re-election campaign on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (Obama’s Facebook Page)

 

 
 

A Celebration of Women

Celebrates the Actions

Taken by this Woman

that will have Positive Affect on American Society

for Generations to Come…

Brava, Michelle Obama!

(First Lady, U.S.A.)