Michelle Obama: The Light We Carry Tour

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11 December, 2022

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As the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama actively worked to improve the lives of many Americans — from students to military families. She launched the Let’s Move initiative to tackle childhood obesity, worked with the U.S. Tennis Association to build or repair over 10,000 tennis courts for children and started Let Girls Learn, which empowered girls and encouraged them to stay in school. However, the most powerful woman in America was already an experienced lawyer who had worked to help people before her husband became president. She has used her experience to provide speeches and as material for her second book, Becoming, which became the best-selling book of 2018. The book also earned Michelle the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography. While many people know Michelle Obama only as the wife of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, she's a well-educated woman who had a successful career of her own before becoming first lady. Michelle attended both Harvard and Princeton before moving on to practice marketing and intellectual property law. Michelle moved away from law in 1993 to work for the University of Chicago Hospitals where she was first executive director for community affairs and then vice president for community and external affairs. Michelle continued her work as her husband, then a senator, started his presidential campaign. After her husband was inducted to office, Michelle worked for the public good as first lady. She continued working for causes such as equal rights after her husband served his two terms. In 2018, Michelle released her book Becoming.