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The Tisch Family Visits With President-Elect Obama
Special to Education Update
Staunch Obama supporters Emily Sussman, an attorney and her mother Laurie Tisch visited President-elect Obama recently. Sussman had an opportunity to speak privately to President-elect Obama about her organization, Think Blue (www.thinkblue.net) which enables and encourages young professional democrats to support congressional candidates who they believe to be the next generation of national leaders. Laurie Tisch is the founder and president of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, the founding chairman of the Center for Arts Education and a Trustee of Teachers College, Columbia University.