Michelle Obama Coming To Newark; Here’s How To Get Tickets

NEWARK, NJ — Michelle Obama is coming to New Jersey and you can meet her… for a price.

On Monday, the Prudential Center in Newark announced that the former first lady, attorney and author will appear for a “moderated Q&A conversation” at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3. Ticket prices weren’t immediately available in an initial press statement.

Learn more about Obama’s November appearance in Newark.

Tickets for the event go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 13 at Ticketmaster. Tickets will also be available in person at Prudential Center Box Office at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 16 should inventory remain.

Pre-sale tickets will be available for purchase beginning Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. until Thursday, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. More information about pre-sale tickets wasn’t immediately available.

VIP tickets that include a “meet and greet” with Michelle Obama will also be available, the Prudential Center stated.

Obama – who is married to ex-president Barack Obama – served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

The Prudential Center offered the following background on her achievements:

“As a transformative First Lady, Mrs. Obama launched and led four key initiatives: Let’s Move!, to address the challenge of childhood obesity; Joining Forces, to support veterans, service members and their families; Reach Higher, to inspire young people to seek higher education; and Let Girls Learn, to help adolescent girls around the world go to school.

“Before becoming First Lady, Michelle Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She started her career as an attorney at the Chicago law firm, Sidley & Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama. She later worked in the Chicago mayor’s office, the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. Mrs. Obama also founded the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an organization that prepares young people for careers in public service.

“In 2018, Michelle Obama published her memoir, 'Becoming,' which sold more copies than any other book published in the United States in 2018, achieving that status in just 15 days and instantly rising to the #1 slot on the New York Times Best Sellers list.”

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Obama’s November visit to Newark won’t be her first trip to Essex County.

In 2016, she visited Philip's Academy Charter School in Newark as part of her “American Garden Tour,” joining students as they planted their school garden. The visit came four months after then-president Barack Obama came to the city to discuss criminal justice reform in America.

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The former first lady has other connections to Essex County, as well.

Last year, a group of four West Orange High School students got the chance to meet Obama – along with media mogul Oprah Winfrey – at the Hearst Tower in New York City, headquarters of "O," the Oprah Magazine.

• See related article: Oprah, Michelle Obama Surprise West Orange Students

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