The President of the United States and his family
D. studies, and then returned to Kenya in 1965. In 1966, Dunham
married Lolo Soetoro, another EastWest Center student from Indonesia. A year later, the
family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born.
Several incidents in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son's safety and education so, at the
age of 10, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother
and sister later joined them.
Family
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and
incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American
First Lady of the United States.
She met Barack Obama when they were among the few African Americans at their law firm,
Sidley Austin (she has sometimes said only two, although others have pointed out there were
others in different departments), and she was assigned to mentor him as a summer associate.