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Early life and career of Barack Obama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He graduated with a A.B. from Columbia in 1983, then worked at Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group.
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After four years living in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer. He worked for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[51][53][54] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000,
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Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.
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At the end of his first year [1989] he was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review
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In February 1990, his second year at Harvard, he was elected president of the law review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.
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The publicity from his election as the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations. In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book.
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Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992
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Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004).
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Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992
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In 1993 Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004
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During [ 1993-1996 ] Obama worked as a full-time lawyer at the firm, he was involved in 30 cases and accrued 3,723 billable hours.
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He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, and served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994–2002
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Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.[51] He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center
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The Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama began in with the 1997 swearing in of Obama to his first term in the Illinois Senate and ended with his 2004 election to the United States Senate.
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