Condoleezza Rice: My Father was a Feminist

One of Rice's biggest feminist role models was her father.

Raised in Birmingham, Alabama Rice was on her way to becoming a concert pianist before turning to international relations and developing a career as a respected Soviet specialist.  In late 1989, President George H.W. Bush introduced Rice, then a National Security Council staffer, to Mikhail Gorbachev saying, "This is Condoleezza Rice.  She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." In 2000, she joined the campaign of George W. Bush. After the election, President Bush appointed her National Security Advisor, the first woman to hold the position, and later, Secretary of State, making her the first African American woman to serve in the post.  Rice is back to teaching at her beloved Stanford while running an international consulting business.