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Michelle Robinson Obama is Vice President for Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Hospitals and wife of U.S. Senator Barack Obama.

Obama was born in Chicago where she graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981. She majored in sociology at Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.

Following law school, Obama was an associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. Subsequently, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor and Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. Obama then worked as Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to choose careers in public service.

Obama began work for the University of Chicago Hospitals in 2002, and was promoted to her current position in May 2005. In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her among "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women."

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On being a political wife: "It’s hard, and that’s why Barack is such a grateful man."