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The winds are changing. You can feel it in the air a little more every day people are feeling activated. Young people have marched on Milwaukee streets every day for almost a year demanding justice.
The status quo is no longer serving us, and we know what our city can look and feel like when we are truly safe and thriving. We are committed to getting there.
But we need to talk about how exhausting this work can be.
Michelle Obama Fast Facts
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Personal
Birth place: Chicago, Illinois
Father: Fraser Robinson, water filtration worker
Mother: Marian (Shields) Robinson
Children: Sasha, Malia
Religion: Christian
Graduated magna cum laude with a sociology degree from Princeton.
Met Barack Obama when she was assigned to be his mentor at Sidley & Austin, a Chicago law firm.
Her father suffered from and eventually died of multiple sclerosis.
Timeline
1991-1992
1992-1993
1993-1996 – Founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago.
1996-2002 – Associate Dean of Student Services for the University of Chicago and director of the University Community Service Center.
2002-2005
2005-2007 – Member of the board of Tree House Foods, a food supplier for Walmart stores.
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Ensuring that families have early childhood literacy tools is an important goal of the Martin-Pitt Partnership for Children. Vedika Modi, a State Employees’ Credit Union Public Fellows intern, helped the nonprofit scout new stand-alone book lending library locations as part of her internship program this fall. | Photo: Picsea / Unsplash
For many nonprofits, it s not just their mission that defines them, but the connections they build within their communities.
East Carolina University sophomore Vedika Modi learned about the importance of those connections during her internship with the Martin-Pitt Partnership for Children this fall as part of the State Employees Credit Union (SECU) Public Fellows Internship (PFI) program.
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Founded more than 50 years ago, the Eastern Carolina Vocational Center is the largest employer of people with disabilities in the region. State Employees’ Credit Union Public Fellows intern Nathaniel Smith helped the center share its message by managing its marketing plan as part of his internship duties. | Photo: CHUTTERSNAP / Unsplash
Moving around during childhood can be stressful for any student constantly boxing up and uprooting their lives.
After more than four moves and a constant reshuffling of schools and friends, Detroit native Nathaniel Smith finally settled in Charlotte.
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Many small business owners struggle to get ideas off the ground due to a lack of resources and equipment. State Employees’ Credit Union Public Fellows intern Dejah McManus helped Wayne County Library launch Project Click! to help alleviate some of these early business building issues for library patrons. | Photo: Chris Murray / Unsplash
Libraries aren t traditionally the place you go for small business support, but one East Carolina University student is changing that perception in Wayne County.
McManus, an accounting major, flexed her marketing skills to help promote Wayne County Library’s Project Click!. | Photo: Dejah McManus