In 2011, Bush released a video with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) civil rights organization, calling on New York State to legalize same-sex marriage. Bush was also chosen as one of the 14 speakers selected from an applicant pool of 1,500 to speak at the TEDx Brooklyn event in December 2010, where she spoke about Global Health Corps. In 2009, Global Health Corps won a Draper Richards Foundation Fellowship, and Bush was made a 2009 Echoing Green fellow for her work with Global Health Corps. Global Health Corps provides opportunities for young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the front lines of the fight for global health equity. Global Health Corps īarbara is the co-founder and president of a public health-focused nonprofit, Global Health Corps.

Previously, she had been working with AIDS patients in Africa: Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana, among other places, through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative. She worked for the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution. After graduating, she lived in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a BA in Humanities and Harvard Kennedy School with a Master in Public Administration as a fellow with the Center for Public Leadership. She began Austin High School in 1996, graduating with the class of 2000. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Barbara attended St. Later, Barbara and Jenna attended The Hockaday School in Dallas. When the family lived in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, she and her twin sister, Jenna, attended Preston Hollow Elementary School Laura Bush served on Preston Hollow's Parent-Teacher Association at that time. Bush and Laura Bush and her sister, Jenna, in 1990īarbara Pierce Bush was born on 25 November 1981 at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

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