Education stories

• Health & Wellbeing
• Voyagers

Explore Liza Zaruba's Summer Voyage, and learn how she plans to apply her new health care skills back in Chicago

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

MBK Omaha has become a Model Community for showing a population-level impact on Milestone 6, all youth remain safe from violent crimes by demonstrating a 30 percent decrease in homicides from 2011 to 2022.

• Community Engagement
• Youth

Hear directly from one of the My Brother’s Keeper Model Communities on how they achieved a 91 percent graduation rate for students of color.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Community Engagement

Discover how Ladies of Virtue is transforming lives through mentorship and leadership

• Equality
• Defending Democracy

Hear directly from Adrijana Hanušić Bećirović as she talks about human rights and what the Obama Leadership program has meant to her.

• Youth
• The Arts

See how the students explored expression and possibilities at EXPO Chicago.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Programs

Learn more about how the Girls Opportunity Alliance is working to empower and educate girls around the world

• Leaders
• USA

Meet 2023 United States Obama Leader Ryan Pavel, veteran, and CEO of Warrior-Scholar Project.

• Leaders
• Europe

Find out how Elpida is making a difference for female entrepreneurs in Kenya.

• Equality
• Leaders

Learn how Ireen is improving the livelihood of women and girls in Zambia’s rural communities.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Asia-Pacific

Read Hay’s story from Vietnam.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Asia-Pacific

Read Kiran’s story from India.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Asia-Pacific

Laxmi’s story

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Equality

Rebecca’s story

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Watch

Watch Diana’s story from Malawi.

• Barack Obama
• Watch

On June 15, 2012, President Obama announced DACA, an executive action to lift the shadow of deportation for young people who came to the United States as undocumented immigrants.

• Defending Democracy
• Barack Obama

Hear President Obama share his vision for the internet in this keynote address at Stanford University.

• Scholars
• Barack Obama

President Obama joined with University of Chicago Scholars for a thoughtful conversation about their work and the issues that are impacting their work. He later dropped in to Hyde Park Academy on the South Side of Chicago for a Futures Series conversation!

• Alumni
• Community Engagement

Meet an Obama Alum who is helping young Chicagoans reach their dreams

• Presidential History
• Barack Obama

This week, 100kin10 announced they exceeded a goal President Obama set in 2011: to recruit and train 100,000 new STEM teachers by 2021.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

Inspiring Hope in Denver, One Student at a Time

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

Community Spotlight: MBK Yonkers

• Watch
• Chicago

In the Englewood neighborhood, Joseph Williams is also known as “The Black Mr. Rogers.”

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Michelle Obama

See how Mrs. Obama is encouraging members of the Girls Opportunity Alliance Network to continue their critical work to ensure every girl gets the education she deserves during the COVID-pandemic, then watch her inspiring remarks from this year's Girl Up Le

• Barack Obama
• Youth

On June 7, President Obama shared a message as part of YouTube Originals' “Dear Class of 2020” program. Participants from our Obama Youth Jobs Corps, Community Leadership Corps, and My Brother's Keeper Alliance programs were also part of the special.

• Watch
• Barack Obama

Watch President Obama's graduation message to the high school class of 2020 and read the transcript of his remarks, delivered as part of Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020.

• Watch
• Michelle Obama

Today, President and Mrs. Obama joined Chicago Public Library’s “Live from the Library” story time sessions, to read “The Word Collector” by Peter Reynolds.

• Watch
• Barack Obama

No one does big things by themselves. That's why we called on our audience to share some words of encouragement for the Class of 2020. Check out some of these uplifting messages—and show us how you're celebrating this year's graduation.

• Your Voice
• Youth

Right now, high school and college seniors across the country are missing out on an important rite of passage: commencement. But that doesn’t mean we have to skip the celebrations.

• Watch
• Michelle Obama

In honor of International Women's Day, Mrs. Obama shared the note below with our email subscribers

• MBK Alliance
• Event

• MBK Alliance
• Changemakers

Spotlight on Community - Native American Community Academy (NACA)

• Michelle Obama
• Girls Opportunity Alliance

Mrs. Obama shared this message below to celebrate the International Day of the Girl and to announce some special news to mark the one year anniversary of the Girls Opportunity Alliance.

• MBK Alliance
• Equality

In his own words, Wille shares how he chose to dedicate his life to improving opportunities for boys and men of color in his city.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Youth

Earlier today, Tiffany Drake, Executive Director of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, sent the message below to our email list in honor of her daughter’s first day of school and to lift up the importance of education for girls around the world.