Introducing: a millennial named Bush - Chron.com
Barbara Bush, daughter of former US President George Bush (L), Bill Austin of Starky Foundation (C) and Sam Okello of the Hope North Secondary and Vocational Institute in Katulikire (R) are pictured before giving out hearing aids to students with... One of the exemplars of this trend, also catering to it, is Barbara Bush, 33. Yes, President George W. Bush's daughter - the one you perhaps last heard of when she was busted for underage drinking in 2001. That was a relief, for it indicated some... But Barbara joined her father on a 2003 trip to Africa and was staggered by the human toll of AIDS in Uganda. So she returned to Yale and took health classes, and then quietly took a job (while her father was still in the White House) in a South African hospital, often working with children with AIDS. After her return, she and five friends began brainstorming about how to help recruit more people to global health. Her connections opened doors - she's frank about that - and they ended up starting Global Health Corps, initially intended as a kind of Teach for America for global health. Bush became chief executive. Source: www.chron.com
