FLOTUS Promotes Leadership and Mentoring [VIDEO]

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke during a White House leadership and mentoring initiative for a group of local high school students November 2, 2009 in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The 10th and 11th grade students will be paired with women in the White House to learn about their career paths. Looking on from left: student Jasmine Gross, student Iris Virgil, Domestic Policy Adviser and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes, student Katherine Buer, and White House Personnel Director Nancy Hogan.

via Politico:
At a gathering in the State Dining room, Obama told the girls that mentoring has always been important to her, and that she wanted to use her platform as first lady to "expand the mentoring role."

Second Lady Jill Biden, White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, and several members of the first lady's staff and the senior staff in the West Wing will serve as mentors.

In the coming months, Obama will take that program on the road, aides said. The West Wing also will launch a mentoring and leadership program for high school boys that the president will participate in, aides said.



Nice.