Amanda Gorman wants to be president one day
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Gorman previously opened up about her goal of becoming president in an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, revealing that it’s been a goal since middle school. “I had a math teacher who said kind of somewhat jokingly — because I was a very passionate, feisty girl, as I am today — you should run for president,” she said. “I was like, you know what? That tracks. Let’s put that on the bulletin board for the future.”
It will be a few years before Gorman is eligible to run for president, but she has been prepping for it for years — and so has her twin sister, who actively avoided being photographed at college parties. “And she would say, ‘Don’t get a photo of me, my sister is running for president in 25 years from now. I can’t have an image coming up,’” Gorman said. “So we all really hold ourselves accountable to the dream.” Gorman has already established a network of powerful women who can guide and mentor her, including Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. “I think that will begin with just discussions with them and really absorbing their wisdom and then seeing how I can make that leadership and that path my own,” she told People.
Amanda Gorman Reveals Her Ultimate Career Goal
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It’s been a wild ride for the 22-year-old, and she’s just getting started. She envisions herself not only continuing to write and perform poetry, but also has political aspirations. “When I was at Harvard, I thought I would have to go down this kind of more orthodox path of ‘Okay, so I’ll go to law school and then maybe I’ll run for local public office,’” she said. “Now I realized that perhaps my path will be a different one, that it might be performing my poetry and touching people that way, and then entering public office from a platform that was built off of my beliefs and thoughts and ideas.”
Amanda Gorman wants to be president one day
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Gorman previously opened up about her goal of becoming president in an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, revealing that it’s been a goal since middle school. “I had a math teacher who said kind of somewhat jokingly — because I was a very passionate, feisty girl, as I am today — you should run for president,” she said. “I was like, you know what? That tracks. Let’s put that on the bulletin board for the future.”
It will be a few years before Gorman is eligible to run for president, but she has been prepping for it for years — and so has her twin sister, who actively avoided being photographed at college parties. “And she would say, ‘Don’t get a photo of me, my sister is running for president in 25 years from now. I can’t have an image coming up,’” Gorman said. “So we all really hold ourselves accountable to the dream.” Gorman has already established a network of powerful women who can guide and mentor her, including Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. “I think that will begin with just discussions with them and really absorbing their wisdom and then seeing how I can make that leadership and that path my own,” she told People.
It will be a few years before Gorman is eligible to run for president, but she has been prepping for it for years — and so has her twin sister, who actively avoided being photographed at college parties. “And she would say, ‘Don’t get a photo of me, my sister is running for president in 25 years from now. I can’t have an image coming up,’” Gorman said. “So we all really hold ourselves accountable to the dream.”
Gorman has already established a network of powerful women who can guide and mentor her, including Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. “I think that will begin with just discussions with them and really absorbing their wisdom and then seeing how I can make that leadership and that path my own,” she told People.
