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Watch: Obama drops in, via Zoom, for a chat with Telling Room students The former president, who recently published a memoir with help from the Telling Room s co-founder, answers questions from students in the Portland writing program. Share Hipai Pamba, co-teacher and graduate of the Young Writers & Leaders Program at the Telling Room, participates in a Zoom call with former President Barack Obama. “I was enlightened by what he had to say,” Pamba says. Photo courtesy of the Telling Room Former President Barack Obama spent an hour on a Zoom chat with 26 students from the Telling Room in Portland in late January, talking with them about writing, his recently published memoir, “A Promised Land,” and the importance of storytelling, community and conquering self-doubts.

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