Barbara Pierce Bush is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters of the 43rd United States. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush.
Background
She is also a granddaughter of the 41st United States. President George H. W. Bush, and his wife Barbara Bush, after whom she was named. Barbara Pierce Bush was born at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Barbara attended Saint Andrew"s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas.
Education
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.
Bush attended Yale University where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Career
She began attending Austin High School in 1996, graduating with the class of 2000. She lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. She worked for the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Previously, she had been working with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 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 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Initiative.
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. 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. In 2011, 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, 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."" 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 United States. Presidential election, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31. 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.
Politics
The two took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in Vogue.