Obama, Ayers, and Jarrett--Birds of a Feather

Obama commerce pick funded Ayers’ pet project

One of the three faculty founders is Barbara Taylor Bowman, the institute’s Irving B. Harris professor of child development. Bowman, who was president of the institute from 1994 to 2001, is the mother of Valerie Jarrett.
One of the Erikson Institute’s former trustees and members of the executive committee is the late Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers.
Dohrn, Bill Ayers’ wife, also served on the Erikson board.
In his 1998 book, “A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court,” Bill Ayers calls Bowman a “neighbor and a friend.”
Obama and Bill Ayers once funded Erikson. The Erikson Institute was among the first 35 school partnerships awarded funds in December 1995 by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was a founder of the Annenberg Challenge; Obama was hired in 1995 as the group’s first chairman.

Annenberg Challenge and Erikson Institute.