Obama and Sister to Share a Town: NYTimes

Quoted via NYTimes:

WASHINGTON — The far-flung Obama clan is coming closer together. President Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is moving her family here from Hawaii and will spend the next several months living in the nation’s capital, White House officials say.

President Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, center, at inauguration with husband, Konrad Ng, Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, and Malia and Sasha Obama. The extended stay means that the siblings will live in the same city, at least for a while, for the first time in years.

Ms. Soetoro-Ng, who has given up her job as a high school teacher in Hawaii, has a book contract and a new baby. Her husband, Konrad Ng, a professor at the University of Hawaii, will become the scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Program here next month.

Museum officials say Mr. Ng will stay in Washington through December, when he will return with his family to Hawaii. There, he will complete his yearlong term as resident scholar. The family is not expected to move into the White House, though they are very close to the Obamas. more