Maya Soetoro-Ng on Diane Rehm Today

Today in the second hour of her program, Diane Rehm interviews Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of S. Ann Dunham and sister of President Barack Obama. Dunham died in 1995, before she was able to revise her dissertation, so Soetoro-Ng worked with editors Nancy Cooper and Alice Dewey to bring the work to publication. Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia is based on Dunham’s research over a period of fourteen years among the rural metalworkers of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’s population. Soetoro-Ng will reflect on her mother's life and legacy and her own upbringing in Indonesia as the daughter of an anthropologist.