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Chicagoan President Barack Obama has long been known as an enthusiastic supporter of the Second City’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic games. Now we know how enthusiastic—the White House is sending in its biggest guns: Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett.
Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett Fight For Chicago Olympics -
Why didn't Obama want to go to an AKA event on the campaign trail?
In New York Times magazine, Obama Gets Cranky About Alpha Kappa Alpha -
What does Valerie Jarrett do? Robert Draper (of the scathing Donald Rumsfeld expose) spills 8,000 words of ink on Jarrett for this weekend's NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, in search of that very idea. He tells a lot of great stories about Jarrett's influence with President Barack Obama, stretching back to the glory days in Chicago's Hyde Park, before their close-knit group of friends and power brokers could ever dream of running the country.
Dueling Profiles of Valerie Jarrett Portray a Woman in Charge -
After all the trouble with the economy, financial literacy is finally on the radar of those in the highest levels of government. Why we have to be a part of the conversation.
White House Efforts to Increase Financial Literacy -
Valerie Jarrett, the big boss of Urban Affairs at the White House, explains what the president has in store for cities.
What Valerie Jarrett Wants to Do for Urban America -
Seven of about three dozen senior positions on President Obama's team are filled by African-American women--part of the evolution of their power in the business world, in academia and in policy circles.
Black Women in the Obama Administration -
Barack Obama doesn't need Valerie Jarrett in the Senate. But if that's what she has her eye on, chances are his old seat is all hers.
What Valerie Wants
