Guide Note
Maya Soetoro-Ng is the half-sister of presidential nominee Barack Obama. Maya and Barack share the same mother, Ann Dunham, an American white woman.1
Soetoro-Ng is actively campaigning on her half-brother's behalf for the 2008 presidential election. She will be one of the speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008.2
Fast Facts
- Resides: Hawaii
- Mother, Ann Dunham, died at the age of 52 from ovarian cancer1
- Her father, Lolo Soetoro, was Indonesian and her mother was a Caucasian from United States1
- Ann Dunham met both her husbands, Barack and Maya's fathers, at the East-West Center on the University of Hawaii campus.1
- Is 9 years younger than her half-brother, Barack Obama1
- Husband: Konrad Ng, a Chinese Canadian3
- Occupation: Teaches at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Has a PhD in Education4
- Teaches world culture, history and civics5
- Has a bumper sticker on her car that says, “1-20-09. End of an Error”1
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