Scholars
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- Health & Wellbeing
- Youth
DeKevious Wilson strengthens youth mental health through policy work.
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- Global Reach
Obama Scholar creates clean water for rural Indonesians
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- Barack Obama
- Event
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!
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- Presidential History
- Programs
Five years later, a look back at President Obama’s farewell address and the call to action that drives our mission at the Foundation
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- Sustainability
- Barack Obama
After delivering remarks during COP26 in Glasgow, President Obama sat down with a group of emerging leaders from around the world who are doing their part to protect the planet. Check out what they discussed.
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- Leaders
- Global Reach
When Robert Katende from the Leaders: Africa program met Vanessa Paranjothy, an Obama Scholar at Columbia University, at the 2018 Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, they discovered an opportunity to team up to help their communities.
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