Born with a drive inherited from a legacy of service, fueled with a passion to make a difference in the lives of those around her, rising to the ministerial rank of Ambassador, Carol Moseley Braun is the embodiment of the American success story.
The uniqueness of the American experience brought together a family with a musical history on her father’s side and generations of farmers on her mother’s side; all to create a family story of creativity and hard work, passion and diligence, curiosity and determination.
Born into working-class roots, Ambassador Braun learned the value of selfless dedication to a higher cause from her maternal grandfather Thomas Davie, a WWI veteran. He instilled in her a passion for the democratic values she would come to cherish on her path of service for the people of Chicago and Cook County as the Recorder of Deeds and a member of the General Assembly, the residents of Illinois as their United States Senator, and the citizens of the United States as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to New Zealand and Samoa.
