What kind of work did Barack Obama do after college?

After graduating from Columbia in 1983, he was hired by a Catholic-run charity in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a community organizer and advocate for the poor. He worked for five years and then went Harvard Law School, graduating with academic honors in 1991. He moved back to Chicago and worked as a civil rights attorney as well as teaching law for nearly twelve years at the University of Chicago Law School. He entered politics in 1996, serving three terms in the Illinois state senate, before becoming a U.S. Senator in 2004. He also married in 1992, and he wrote two best-selling books. In 2007, he launched his campaign for the presidency, and was elected in 2008.