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Michelle Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois to Frasier Robinson (who died in 1990),[1] a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Robinson, a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store.[2] She grew up in the South Shore community area of Chicago,[2][3] and was raised in a conventional two-parent home where the family convened around the dinner table nightly.[4] She and her brother, Craig (who is 16 months older), skipped the second grade.[2] Michelle mostly traces her roots to pre-revolutionary African Americans in the American South, much of her family still resides in the state of South Carolina.[5] Michelle graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981[6] and went on to major in sociology and minor in African American studies at Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude with an A.B. in 1985.[2][7]
At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational.[8] As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community."[9] Her brother Craig was the fourth leading scorer in Princeton University's men's basketball history, and is both a former Brown University's men's basketball coach and the current Oregon State Beavers men's basketball coach.[10] She obtained her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.[11] While at Harvard, she participated in political demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who are minorities.[12]
Barack and Michelle ObamaShe met Barack Obama when they were the only two African Americans at their law firm and she was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate.[13] Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her.[14] The couple's first date was to the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing.[15] The couple married in October 1992,[14] and they have two daughters, Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha (known as Sasha) (born 2001).[16] Throughout the campaign she has made a "commitment to be away overnight only once a week — to campaign only two days a week and be home by the end of the second day" for their two children[17].
She once requested that Barack, who was then her fiancé, meet her prospective boss when considering her first career move.[4] Now, she is her husband’s closest adviser.[18][19] Early in the presidential race she did not portray herself as an adviser, however. In fact, she was quoted in interviews saying "My job is not a senior adviser."
