Valerie Bowman Jarrett is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader.
Jarrett was born to an African-American family in Shiraz, Iran
Her great-uncle is Democratic powerbroker Vernon Jordan.
Jarrett got her start in Chicago politics in 1987 working for Mayor Harold Washington as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development.
She is currently the CEO of The Habitat Company, a real estate development and management company, which she joined in 1995.
Valerie Jarrett is the woman known as the other side of Barack Obama’s brain. Jarrett, a 51-year-old business leader and single mother.
Jarrett is a member of African-American and Chicago royalty.
Too bad she, like Obama, while technically a United States citizen, is not an American.