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Find more photos like this on IAMMichelleObama.com I AM Michelle Obama...Michelle Obama is ME....I am educated and career oriented, I love my family and believe in the importance of a strong foundation, I am a best friend to many sisterfriends and I thank God for the strong bond between positive women, I respect myself and I respect others, I cry and I laugh but lately I rejoice in the image of a woman who exemplifies not only ME but my mother, grandmother, aunt and friends, I struggle yet I am strong, I have many dreams that I am determined to see to fruition, I have hope in a positive future, I am a woman of God who has faith the size of a mustard seed, I am an American woman who dreams the American Dream, not only for myself but, one day, for my children and their children...you see I too am Michelle Obama and Michelle Obama is ME!! WHAT DOES THE LIFE OF MICHELLE OBAMA REPRESENT FOR YOU?

Ursula Burns Chief Executive Officer of Xerox Corp., is a native New Yorker who grew up in a lower East Side housing project in a single-parent home with two siblings. Xerox is the first Fortune 500 company headed by an African-American woman.

Burns climbed the corporate ladder at Xerox, beginning as a summer engineering intern in 1980 and rising to president of the printing giant in 2002. As president, Burns oversaw a large chunk of the company's operations including overseas research and development, engineering, manufacturing and marketing. She helped to build Xerox into the world's largest maker of high-speed color printers.

Last year, Burns ranked 10th on Fortune magazine's top 50 Most Powerful Women in America. She's the second-highest placed African-American woman behind only Oprah Winfrey, who was ranked No. 8.

Burns, who attended Cathedral High School, was the middle of three children from two different absentee fathers.

In a 2003 interview with the New York Times, she described growing up poor in "the projects" - with "lots of Jewish immigrants, fewer Hispanics and African-Americans, but the common denominator and great equalizer was poverty."

Burns' mother took in ironing and ran a home day care center so she could send her kids to Catholic schools. Burns, a math whiz, graduated from Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn with an engineering degree. She got a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1981 from Columbia University.

After she was named president, she told a reporter, "My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard."

Burns is married to Lloyd Bean, a retired Xerox scientist. The couple have two children.

To find out more about Ursula Burns and the Xerox Corp., please go to www.xerox.com

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