Barbara Lee
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Celebrates Birthday at Mills College
Lee’s celebration took place at Mills College Student Union, where, in part, Lee’s political career began.
On July 24, Congresswoman Barbara Lee returned to her alma mater, Mills College, for a dual engagement. As the guest of honor, she conducted a local meet-and-greet among special guests, friends and supporters and she also belatedly celebrated her belated, which was on July 6.
Mills College Lokey School of Business and Public Policy hosted the event for Lee. The special guests included Oakland’s Councilmember Treva Reid, District 7; BART Boardmember, Lateefah Simon, District 7, Candidate Mia Bonta, AD-18, Post Newspaper Group Publisher Paul Cobb and many more.
Lee’s celebration took place at Mills College Student Union, where, in part, Lee’s political career began. Her political future was decisively shaped when she took a government course that required her to participate in a presidential campaign. “I invited Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress, to speak at Mills, and learned that she was running for president,” Lee recalls. “I helped organize her Northern California campaign, and I registered to vote for the first time . . . and the rest is history.”
Whether standing alone as the sole congressional vote against a blank check for endless war, authoring legislation on ending the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, or representing the U.S. House of Representatives in the United Nations General Assembly, Lee carries her Mills education with her. “Mills instilled me with the confidence I needed to achieve my goals,” she says.
Accordingly, we say happy belated birthday and much success to Team Barbara.
