Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes


You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.


Citations

Schnall, Marianne. "A Conversation with Maya Soetoro-Ng." The Huffington Post, 21 Apr. 2011.

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Maya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Born: August 15, 1970
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Educator

Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-American maternal half-sister of the 44th United States president, Barack Obama. Formerly a high school history teacher, she is currently a consultant for the Obama Foundation, working to develop the Asia-Pacific Leaders Program, and a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution, which is based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.