Barack Obama Blog Biography

August 1988: Barack Obama recently left his community organizer job in Chicago, Illinois, for a chance to attend Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. The opportunity is a big one for young Obama - with successful graduation from Harvard Law, one gains entry into a multitude of career and life paths including law and politics (and many times, both). Attending Harvard also adds to the eclectic list of places Obama has called home for significant lengths of time: Hawaii, Indonesia, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and now Boston. It remains unforeseen if the nomadic nature of Obama’s developmental years will ultimately benefit his perspective on American and global culture, or be a detriment to his understanding of having solid “roots” in one place.