Barack Obama is the junior Senator from Illinois, born in 1961 to a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Hawaii and Indonesia, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Political Science, specializing in International Relations. In the 1980s he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, then attended Harvard Law where he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Graduating Magna Cum Laude, he returned to Chicago to continue his work in the community. As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases. In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois state senate representing Hyde Park and was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004. In February of 2007 he announced his candidacy for President and is currently a strong contender, building a vast grassroots campaign on a message of hope, community, unity, and empowerment. Visit his website at BarackObama.com.

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