Pink Shoes, White House: My Style Evolution as an Obama Stenographer

I struggled to make my colorful style fit the job’s low profile

Beck Dorey-Stein
GEN
Published in
10 min readJun 28, 2018

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Photo: Kevin Lamarque

Every morning, long before arriving in the Oval Office, President Obama addressed the first problem of the day. He acted swiftly, with a leader’s resolve and a lawyer’s eye for discrepancy. Without authorization from Congress or approval from…

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