It’s sad to come to terms with recognizing The Obama family as private citizens but that doesn’t mean their work stops there. Former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle announced that their next big project will be the Presidential Center in Chicago coming approximately in 2020.

They aren’t the only ones diving in head first at civilian life.

Malia Obama made an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this week. While she was there, she attended an event supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Just in case you were unaware, President Trump signed five executive actions that approved of high-profile energy and infrastructure projects, the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, on the same sacred grounds that the Obama administration policy disapproved a few weeks before they left office.

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Actress and anti-DAP activist Shailene Woodley mentioned Malia Obama being there in an interview with DemocracyNow.org. After admitting she was conflicted on if Former President Obama could have done more to stop the pipeline from moving forward, she had nothing but positive things to say about the eldest Obama daughter.

“It was amazing to see Malia. I saw her last night when we did the event with Chairman Dave Archambault,” Woodley described. “To witness a human being and a woman coming into her own outside of her family and outside of the attachments that this country has on her, but someone who’s willing to participate in democracy because she chooses to, because she recognizes, regardless of her last name, that if she doesn’t participate in democracy, there will be no world for her future children.”

Malia’s next stop will be in the big apple where she will begin her internship with the Weinstein Company in February before she enrolls in her first semester at Harvard University in fall 2017.

Keep up the good work, Malia. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for her.

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