Barack Obama’s mother, what a great woman❤

Before she became Barack Obama’s mother at the age of 18, Ann Dunham was a high school student described by her friends as “intellectually way more mature than we were and a little bit ahead of her time, in an off-center way” and “the original feminist.” Dunham was twice married by the time she was 23, but she never let her personal life get in the way of her career as an anthropologist. She moved from Honolulu to Jakarta in 1967 — bringing along a six-year-old Barack Obama and she began what would become a lifelong study of rural blacksmithing traditions in Indonesia.

She did important work in poor areas to show that poverty was mostly because people didn’t have enough money, not because they were different from Western culture. She started a small money lending system for rural women that became the biggest in the world.