Valerie jarrett biography family history
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The Honorable Valerie Jarrett is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Barack Obama Foundation. She is also a Senior Distinguished Fellow at The University of Chicago Law School. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing” and “the Path Forward.”
She serves as Board Chairman of Civic Nation. Jarrett also serves on the boards of Walgreens Boot Alliance, Inc., Ralph Lauren Corporation, Sweetgreen, Inc., Ariel Investments, The University of Chicago, Sesame Street Workshop, and The Economic Club of Chicago. Jarrett also serves on the Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Advisory Board, the Bank of America Enterprise Executive Development Council, and the Microsoft Advisory Council.
Jarrett was President Barack Obama&#;s senior advisor from to , the longest-serving senior advisor in history. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chaired the White Ho
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Valerie Jarrett, ’ Looking Back and Moving Forward
While a student at Michigan Law, Valerie Jarrett, ’81, did not spend time cheering on the Wolverines at the Big House. Instead, she focused solely on her academics, knowing the stakes were high for an African American woman. She made that realization while pursuing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University. “The fact that generation after generation of my family had overcome enormous obstacles to succeed, and my parents had made sacrifices so I could have the opportunity to be on that campus, was never far from my mind,” she writes in her new memoir, Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward.
Jarrett, the longest-serving adviser in the Obama ledning and a close friend of the former president and his wife, was in Ann Arbor last April to promote her first book. She spent two hours at the Michigan Theater discussing her memoir and taking questions from Michigan Law Adjunct Professor Broderi
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Valerie Jarrett
American businesswoman and former government official (born )
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Jarrett's White House portrait | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office October 1, | |
| Preceded by | David Simas |
| In office March 25, &#;– October 1, | |
| Preceded by | Wally Adeyemo |
| Succeeded by | David Simas |
| In office January 20, &#;– January 20, | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Julie E. Cram (Public Liaison) Janet Creighton (Intergovernmental Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | George Sifakis (Public Liaison) Justin R. Clark (Intergovernmental Affairs) |
| In office January 20, &#;– January 20, | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Barry Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Jared Kushner Stephen Miller |
| Born | Valerie June Bowman () November 14, (age&#;68) Shiraz, Iran |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | William Jarrett &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | Laura Jarrett |
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