A Conversation on the Importance of Political Activism with Barack Obama

Illinois Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work as a community organizer. In 1991 he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He is the author of The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream and Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Part of Political Action Week and the Presidential Caucus Series.