Michelle Obama Sparks Reaction at Time 100 Gala


Talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West arrive at the Time 100 Reception in New York (Source: Marcia A. Wade).

Time’s managing editor Rick Stengel acknowledged to me that Obama is “a role model for women around the world.”  But Obama wants us to realize that the same “influence” that she has we all have.

We all have the ability to influence the outcome of someone elses life, she said last night while encouraging fellow Time honorees and American citizens to inspire a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs to direct their energy toward solving their community’s – and our nation’s – most serious social problems.

In doing so, she says that we will all be rewarded by “watching young people recognize that they have the power to enrich not only their lives, but the lives of others as well.”


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