Reach Higher - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Reach Higher Transcripts Krish Vignarajah ...the First Lady's Office—Joining Forces, Reach Higher , and Let's Move! So it was reall... Melissa Winter ...in deeper. I think we must have started Reach Higher in the second term. We started he... ...other two initiatives that really— Reach Higher ; obviously education is everything t... ...class at school—whatever it was. So Reach Higher was a given. It was a natural fo... ...kids. Yeah. Great. So, moving on to Reach Higher : that was also a joint initiative... ...Biden—or was Dr. Biden not involved in Reach Higher ? That was mostly—I mean, there wer... ...as Joining Forces was. Okay. So was Reach Higher —it seems like, to me, that was like ... ...of education over the course of Reach Higher . By the time we launched Reac... ...Reach Higher. By the time we launched Reach Higher —and I can't remember what year i... ...a lot of this. And Eric is still doing Reach Higher to this day. He and Stephanie Spro... ...up Eric and partnered with him and Reach Higher , and they turned it into a hug... Show more... Karen Dresden ...return, which was connected to her Reach Higher initiative. Several years passed, bu... ...found it aligned really well with her Reach Higher initiative, especially since th... ...some of the goals of the first lady's Reach Higher initiative, so this opportunity come... ...so deeply in them. We talk about Reach Higher , but the Let's Move!, the fitness an... Devon Adelman ...from attending the Beating the Odds Reach Higher Summit, so I thought that wa... ...pay attention to the Obamas before the Reach Higher event, or more so afterwards? I thin... ...yes. Okay. Let's talk more about the Reach Higher initiative and the Beating the Odd... Tina Tchen ...there. Right after we left, we moved Reach Higher there from the White House. It's no... ...obesity. For Let Girls Learn and for Reach Higher , we, again, embedded some of th... ...what she might want to do, and also for Reach Higher , because she wanted to be engaged i... ...our staff—Eric Waldo, who was running Reach Higher , Tiffany Drake, who was running Le... ...and expert in education, really grew Reach Higher into a very robust effort aroun... ...jobs with federal money. Or for Reach Higher , we got commitments from all thes... Show more... Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa