Steve Jobs' Widow Will Sit With First Lady

Laurene Powell Jobs will be with Michelle Obama for SOTU speech
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 24, 2012 3:03 PM CST
Steve Jobs' Widow Will Sit With First Lady
2010 file photo: Steve Jobs and wife Laurene Powell Jobs arrive at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at Kodak Theater in Hollywood.   (Getty Images)

The State of the Union speech itself may not have the same grand aura of addresses of old, but at least the crowd sitting with Michelle Obama is turning out to be an interesting bunch. Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve, will be with the first lady, and the White House bio stresses her own accomplishments, notes the San Francisco Chronicle. That includes her work as founder of the Emerson Collective, which is "focused on harnessing the potential of individuals from underserved communities to help them build a better life," says the White House.

Also there will be the guy who co-founded the photography app company Instagram, Mike Krieger. He is a native of Brazil who came to the US to study at Stanford, a good sign that immigration will be one of President Obama's themes, notes the Chronicle. We already knew that Warren Buffett's secretary would be there, to help the president shore up his message about economic inequality. (More Obama State of the Union address stories.)

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