Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham work on display at the East-West Center.

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Video of the exhibit about her at the East-West Center here;


http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/living/2011/12/30/keilar-pkg-life-of-obamas-mom.cnn



From the Newsweek article about her;


Ann's most lasting professional legacy was to help build the microfinance program in Indonesia, which she did from 1988 to '92—before the practice of granting tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs was an established success story. Her anthropological research into how real people worked helped inform the policies set by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia, says Patten, an economist who worked there. "I would say her work had a lot to do with the success of the program," he says. Today Indonesia's microfinance program is No. 1 in the world in terms of savers, with 31 million members, according to Microfinance Information eXchange Inc., a microfinance-tracking outfit.



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1729685,00.html#ixzz1iKI2UGJs

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1. Bunch of photos on the link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10174173

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2. K & R