Malia Obama spotted on campus

Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Malia Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama ’85, on campus on Monday.

Malia Obama was first seen in Mathey Dining Hall between10 and 11 a.m. and was then reportedly seen down campus at Frist Campus Center.

Emails to the Quadrangle Club and Nassau Weekly listservs cited seeing Malia Obama.

The University Press Club also published photographs of Malia Obama talking with former Undergraduate Student Government president Shawon Jackson ’15 and reported that they were talking about alumni engagement earlier.

Jackson declined to comment.

Malia Obamawas also reportedly seen near 1879 Arch with a group of students.

University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua deferred questions about Malia Obama’s visit to the First Lady’s Press Office at the White House. The First Lady’s Press Office did not respond to requests for comment.

Business Insider reported on Friday that Malia Obama would also be visiting Brown University this week.

Neither her father nor her mother were seen on campus. Michelle Obama is currently visiting Asia as part of the Let Girls Lead Initiativebut accompanied Malia Obama on a visit to New York University in February.

Malia Obama, who worked with Steven Spielberg last summer, may have been interested in NYU’s top-ranked film school. Sheis a junior in high school, meaning she could submit an application to the University as early as later this calendar year.

Malia Obama also visited Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley last summer and Columbia University in February.

Her father and her uncle, Craig Robinson ’83, attended the University’s women’s basketball team's first round NCAA game against the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Phoenix on Saturday at Xfinity Center on the University of Maryland’s campus. Forward Leslie Robinson ’18 is Malia Obama's cousin.