I am a high school United States Government teacher at Anacostia Senior High School in Washington, D.C., and I decided to apply for the White House Internship Program because I wanted to continue making a difference. Leaving my students for a semester was a very difficult decision to make but I knew that interning within the Office of the First Lady and helping to continue the great work she and her staff had been championing would be a priceless experience that would allow me to return to teaching an enlightened, highly motivated person.
As a woman of color from the rural South I always desired to learn as much as possible, become educated and travel to places I was never afforded the opportunity to visit while growing up in a single-parent household. A first-generation college student, I attended college and went on to attend graduate school at Harvard University in order become the best teacher I could possibly be. It was during graduate school that I learned more about First Lady Michelle Obama and the work she desired to do for youth and adults in our county. I admired her story, ambition and drive; I knew that I could work hard in helping her achieve her goals as First Lady if given the opportunity to join her team as an intern.
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