In , she received a Doctor of Education Ed. Biden continued her career at Northern Virginia Community College, teaching throughout their eight years in office. As Second Lady, Dr. Biden focused on advocating for community colleges, military families, and the education of women and girls around the world.
As the Obama-Biden Administration focused on recovering from the economic recession, Dr. She also became the honorary chair of the College Promise National Advisory Board, leading the effort to make community colleges free for hard-working students. Biden has been a longtime advocate for military families. As Second Lady, she launched Joining Forces with First Lady Michelle Obama, an initiative to support service members, veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors.
During her first White House tenure, Dr. Biden traveled to nearly forty countries, visiting military bases, hospitals, and refugee camps, and advocating for education and economic empowerment for women and girls. Biden have issued a national challenge to all Americans to take action and find ways to support and engage our military families in their own communities. Joining Forces aims to educate, challenge, and spark action from all sectors of our society — citizens, communities, businesses, non-profits, faith-based institutions, philanthropic organizations, and government — to ensure that service members, veterans, and their families have the tools they need to succeed throughout their lives.
At JoiningForces. In , after four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Biden started the Biden Breast Health Initiative in Delaware, which has educated more than 10, high school girls about the importance of early detection of breast cancer. Biden continues to stress the importance of breast cancer research and early detection. Biden has been an educator for more than three decades.
Prior to moving to Washington, D. She has focused on women's educational opportunities in a tour of Asia as well that took her to Japan, Korea and Vietnam and later served as a U. The Biden family faced tragedy when Joe's son Beau passed away from brain cancer in at the age of Around this time there was also the question of whether Joe Biden would run for U.
He ultimately decided not to run, with the Democratic party nomination going to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
Joe Biden is the president of the United States. He also served as Barack Obama's vice president from Bush and mother of President George W. Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, and the first African American to serve in the office. First elected to the presidency in , he won a second term in Nancy Reagan was a former Hollywood actress, the first lady of the United States during President Ronald Reagan's time in office and the founder of the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign.
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