Obama's resume

EXPERIENCE:

United State Senator, elected November 2004, serving to present

• Serves on Senate committees for Foreign Relations, Veterans’ Affairs, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Also served on Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works.
• Chairman of Senate subcommittee on European Affairs
• Shares responsibility for the bipartisan Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, requiring full online disclosure of all entities receiving federal funds.
• Shares responsibility for the bipartisan Lugar-Obama Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006, deepening non-proliferation work and including surface-to-air missiles, land mines, and other weapons that may be used by terrorists
• Responsible for the Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2005, providing aid and expertise to promote democracy in post-war Congo
• Was chosen by the Democratic party to be the point person on ethics reform, putting forth important contributions to a major ethics reform bill
• Wrote and sponsored successful amendments that provide food and telephone services to recuperating veterans free of charge, improve aid for homeless veterans, ensure that all Iraq veterans are tested for Tramatic Brain Injury, improve evacuation and location services in the event of a natural disaster, investigate FEMA's response to formaldehyde-infected trailers used in the Katrina aftermath, require lobbyists to disclose who they collect or arrange contributions for and the total amounts of those contributions, provide funds for summer learning programs among low-income students in the early grades, increase the pool of students entering science and technology fields, improve the safety and efficacy of genetic tests, clarify U.S. policy detering nuclear testing, forcing the EPA to enforce lead paint regulations, funding avian flu research, fund research for hybrid and flex-fuel vehicles, and several others

Illinois State Senator, elected November 1996, served to 2004

• Chairman of Health and Human Services Committee
• Spearheaded a successful bipartisan effort in Illinois to pass the broadest ethics-reform legislation by any state in 25 years
• Gained bipartisan support for his bills reforming death penalty interrogations and ending racial profiling by police
• Sponsored successful bills expanding tax credits and child-care subsidies for low-income working families, protecting overtime pay for workers, expanding health care for children and their parents, setting up a "Hospital Report Card" system, and providing job skills training for juveniles
• Worked with Republican-led state senate to negotiate welfare reform

Civil Rights Lawyer, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, 1993 to 2004

• Represented non-profit organizations and private individuals in urban development projects, voting rights cases, and wrongful firings
• Filed major suit that forced the state of Illinois to enforce the Motor Voter Law
• Successfully argued before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of wrongful firing

Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Chicago School of Law, 1992 to 2004

• Lecturer from 1992 through 1996, senior lecturer from 1996 through 2004
• Taught courses on the due process and equal protection areas of constitutional law, on voting rights, and on racism and law
• Helped develop a casebook on voting rights

Community Organizer, Developing Communities Project, 1985 to 1988

• Motivated community members to fight for their own causes through a church-based movement
• Helped set up a college prep tutoring program, job training center, and tenants' rights organization, and fought to get asbestos removed from tenants’ apartments
• Also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation

Community Organizer, New York Public Interest Research Group, 1984 to 1985

• Promoted personal, community, and government reform
• Mobilized student volunteers at the City College in Harlem

Researcher and Writer, Business International Corporation, 1983 to 1984

• Helped companies understand overseas markets in the “Financing Foreign Operations” service
• Wrote for the “Business International Money Report”

EDUCATION:

J.D., Harvard School of Law, 1988 to 1991

• Graduated magna cum laude
• First Black president of the Harvard Law Review in school history

B.A. in Political Science and International Relations, Columbia University, 1981 to 1983

• Graduated with honors
• Wrote thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament

ACTIVITIES:

* Wrote the best-selling Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope
* Has written articles for the Harvard Law Review, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Post
* Founding president and chairman of board of directors for Chicago Annenberg Challenge
* Founding member of board of directors for Public Allies
* Served on board of directors for The Joyce Foundation
* Served on board of directors for Woods Fund of Chicago
* Served on board of directors for Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
* Served on board of directors for Center for Neighborhood Technology
* Served on board of directors for Lugenia Burns Hope Center
* Has also been involved with ACORN, the Center for New Horizons, and Leadership for Quality Education
* Has spoken on behalf of “Wake up Wal-Mart”, “Families USA”, the “Global Summit on AIDS and the Church”, and the “Call To Renewal” politics and religion conference