Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward Audiobook (Free)

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‘Valerie continues to be among Barack and my closest confidantes for many years… the world would feel better if there have been more folks like Valerie blazing the path for the rest of us.’–Michelle Obama

‘The supreme Obama insider’ (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama Light Home shares her trip as a girl, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American background.

about Locating My Voice: My Trip to the Western world Wing and the Path Forward

When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for employment in Chicago town federal government, neither knew that it had been the first step on a route that would result in the White Home. Jarrett shortly became Michelle and Barack Obama’s respected personal adviser and family members confidante; in the Light House, she was known as the one who ‘got’ him and helped him employ his public lifestyle. Jarrett became a member of the White Home group on January 20, 2009 and departed with the First Family members on January 20, 2017, and she was in the room–in the Oval Workplace, on Air Push One, and everywhere else–when everything happened. Nobody has as seductive a view of the Obama Years, nor one that reaches back as many years, as Jarrett shares to find My Voice.

Blessed in Iran (where her dad, a doctor, searched for a more satisfactory job than he could find in segregated America), Jarrett was raised in Chicago in the 60s as racial and gender barriers were being challenged. A single mother stagnating in commercial law, she discovered her tone of voice in Harold Washington’s historic administration, where she started a remarkable trip, ultimately becoming perhaps one of the most visible and important African-American women from the twenty-first century.

From her function ensuring equality for women and girls, advancing civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system, and improving the lives of functioning families, to the real stories behind a few of the most stirring occasions from the Obama presidency, Jarrett shares her forthright, optimistic perspective for the need for leadership and the responsibilities of citizenship in the twenty-first century, inspiring readers to lift their own voices.