About the author
Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States. He is a politician, attorney, and former Illinois U.S. senator. Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. Previously, he worked as a civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, and worked as a community organizer in Chicago. Obama received his B.A. from Columbia University and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School.