Early life

Barbara Pierce Bush was born at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. When the family lived in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, she and her twin sister, Jenna, attended Preston Hollow Elementary School; Laura Bush served on Preston Hollow's Parent Teachers Association at that time. Later, Barbara and Jenna attended The Hockaday School in Dallas. When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Barbara attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. She began attending Austin High School in 1996, graduating with the class of 2000.

Bush attended Yale University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

Career

She worked for the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution. Previously, she had been working with AIDS patients in Africa, in Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana, among other places, through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative.

Global Health Corps

She is the co-founder and president of a public health-focused nonprofit, Global Health Corps. Global Health Corps provides opportunities for young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the front lines of the fight for global health equity. In 2009, Global Health Corps won a prestigious Draper Richards Foundation Fellowship. Bush was also chosen as one of the 14 speakers selected from an applicant pool of 1,500 to speak at the TEDx Brooklyn event in December 2010, where she spoke about Global Health Corps.

Political activity

In 2011, Bush released a video with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, calling on New York State to legalize same-sex marriage. "'I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,' she says in the brief message, sponsored by an advocacy group. 'New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love.'" Bush joined other children of prominent Republican politicians—including Meghan McCain and Mary Cheney—in endorsing gay marriage.

Barbara's graduation from Yale in May 2004 was given heavy media coverage. She and Jenna made several media appearances that summer prior to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31. The two took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in Vogue. Barbara joined her mother on diplomatic trips to Liberia in January 2006 to attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and to Vatican City to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2006.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Barbara Pierce Bush

16. Samuel P. Bush 8. Prescott Bush 17. Flora Sheldon 4. George H. W. Bush 18. George Herbert Walker 9. Dorothy Walker 19. Lucretia Wear 2. George Walker Bush 20. Scott Pierce 10. Marvin Pierce 21. Mabel Marvin 5. Barbara Pierce 22. James E. Robinson 11. Pauline Robinson 23. Lula D. Flicking 1. Barbara Pierce Bush 24. William Franklin Welch 12. Mark Anthony Welch 25. Nancy Jane Aldridge 6. Harold Bruce Welch 13. Marie Lula Lane 3. Laura Lane Welch 28. Charles Wesley Hawkins 14. Halsey Sinclair Hawkins 29. Martha Jennie Allen 7. Jenna Louise Hawkins 30. Joseph Allen Sherrard 15. Jessie Laura Sherrard 31. Eva Louise Lamaire ou Lemaire

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