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National Media Features Public Allies Growth & Links to Obama, Clinton and McCain

Fired Up and Ready to Grow

Youth group's Obama link raises its profile nationwide

By Suzanne Perry

When Vanessa Kirsch was working in the early 1990s to create a new organization to train young people for public service, she recalls, people kept telling her: "There's this guy in Chicago; you've got to meet with him."

That "guy" was a civil-rights lawyer and community organizer named Barack Obama — the future U.S. senator and Democratic presidential contender, who ended up playing a critical role in the group that Ms. Kirsch co-founded, Public Allies. Read full article....