Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, until he turned ten years. Then he returned to live in Honolulu with his maternal grandparents, and in 1971 was inscribed in the fifth grade-school Punahau School until his graduation from high school in 1979. [5] His mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 and remained there for several years, until he traveled back to Indonesia to carry out his fieldwork. In 1995, Ann died from ovarian cancer. [6] During the civil forum for the presidency, held in the church Saddleback Church, admitted that his great moral failure was during his years of high school, because they consumed marijuana, cocaine and alcohol. [7] [8]
Once completed his baccalaureate, he moved to Los Angeles, and began his studies at the institute Western College for a period of two years. [9] Subsequently, he moved to Columbia University in New York City, at career in political science with a specialization in International Relations. [10] He graduated with undergraduate academic degree in Liberal Arts at Columbia in 1983 and then began working in the company Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group. [11] [12] [13]
After working for four years in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he was an active community organizer and project director of Developing Communities Project (DCP), a religious community organization that originally had eight Catholic parishes in the Greater Roseland ( Roseland, Riverdale and West Pullman) in the southern part of town called South Side, from June 1985 through May 1988 for three years. [12] [11] In his tenure as director of the DCP, the number of staff from 1 to 13, the annual budget grew from $ 70,000 to $ 400,000 U.S. dollars, and among its achievements is also the help they provided to establish a job training program, a tutoring preparation for college and an organization in favor of rights of tenants in Altgeld Gardens. [14] Similarly, he worked as a consultant and instructor for the foundation Gameliel Foundation, which is an institute of organizing communities. [15] In mid-1988, he traveled first to Europe by Three weeks after he went to Kenya for five weeks, and met their close relatives by his father. [16]
In late 1988, he entered law school Harvard Law School, and during his first year as a student was selected as editor of the Harvard Law Review, because his grades and a writing contest. [17] In its second year career, was elected president of that publication, and served as a volunteer full time, putting the work of chief editing, and supervising the staff made up of 80 editors. [18] The fact that she has been chosen in February 1990 as the first African American president of the supplement laws, was widely reported by the media, and was conducted detailed biographical profiles. [19] In 1991, he graduated from Harvard magna cum laude as a student and a doctorate degree or Juris Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD). In the summer of that year, he returned to Chicago and worked as an associate at the law firms Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins and Sutter in 1990. [20] [21]
The publicity gained as a result of being the first black president of Harvard legal journal, which helped to university and get a contract that progress in writing a book about race relations. [12] In an effort to recruit as a professor at the law faculty at the University of Chicago, he provisioning with a research fellowship and an office to work in his book. Originally planned to conclude the writing of his work in one year, but it took longer because it evolved into a collection of their personal memories. However, in order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife Michelle, travelled to Bali, where for several months was devoted solely to writing his book. In mid-1995, the manuscript was finally published under the title dreams of my father (in English Dreams from My Father). [12]
From April to October 1992, he directed the nonprofit organization called Project Vote, which was formed by a staff of 10 employees and 700 volunteers, and through this project reached the goal of registering 150,000 400,000 African Americans who were not registered in the state of Illinois. His work on this project he deserved being named in the weekly Crain Chicago Business in its list of 1993, and future promise among 40 under forty (In English Forty under 40). [22] [23]
During a period of twelve years (1992-2004) taught constitutional law at the faculty of law at the University of Chicago, the first four years served as professor and then as senior lecturer. [24]
In 1993 he joined the law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland, a firm composed of 12 lawyers specializing in litigation and civil law and economic development in neighborhoods. He served as a partner in the first three years (1993-1996), then as an attorney advisor in the period 1996 to 2004, and his license to exercise the right race became inactive in 2002. [11] [25]
Obama was a founding member of the board of the organization of youth leadership development known as Public Allies in 1992 and resigned from this position before his wife Michelle was promoted as executive director of the same company. [26] In early 1993, was member of the board of directors of the philanthropic organization Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation that funded the project DCP during the years 1993 to 2002. Also, he served on the board of the charitable foundation Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002. He was also member of the board of the foundation Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and served as founding chairman of the board of directors. Additionally, he was a member of the directive of the Committee of the Chicago lawyers for civil rights covered under the law (in English Chicago Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), the Technology Centre neighborhood (in English Center for Neighborhood Technology) , And finally the foundation Lugenia Burns Hope Center. [11]

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