Ann Dunham
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Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960
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Stanley Ann Dunham November 29, 1942 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 1995 (aged 52) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Uterine cancer |
| Resting place | Ashes scattered into the Pacific Ocean off Koko Head, Oahu, Hawaii |
| Education | PhD |
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University of Hawaii University of Washington |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Known for | Mother of Barack Obama |
| Home town | Wichita, Kansas |
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Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. She was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia.
Dunham was known as Stanley Ann Dunham through high school, then as Ann Dunham, Ann Obama, Ann Soetoro, Ann Sutoro (after her second divorce), and finally as Ann Dunham. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham spent her childhood in California, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, her teenage years in Mercer Island, Washington, and most of her adult life in Hawaii and Indonesia.
Dunham studied at the East–West Center and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, where she attained a bachelor's of anthropology and master's and PhD in anthropology. She also attended University of Washington at Seattle in 1961–1962. Interested in craftsmanship, weaving and the role of women in cottage industries, Dunham's research focused on women's work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. Dunham was also employed by the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and she consulted with the Asian Development Bank in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Towards the latter part of her life, she worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia, where she helped apply her research to the largest microfinance program in the world.
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