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Holloway, who was home in D.C. from Tuesday night until this morning, was told to keep the opportunity a secret until the White House released the information yesterday...
...part of the first class of D.C. Scholars, Holloway spent last summer researching local issues, particularly child abuse, with the White House Domestic Policy Council. Holloway joined one of her eight D.C. Scholars classmates, Clayton Armstrong of the University of Arizona, at the Capitol last night...
Holloway, a D.C. native, was offered the opportunity after her involvement in the D.C. Scholars Program, a program President Barack Obama and the First Lady started last year to award White House internships to D.C. public school students...
Holloway said that a representative from the White House called her last Tuesday to offer her the opportunity to attend the State of the Union as a special guest of Michelle Obama...
While Holloway said that the White House did not give specific reasons as to why they selected her from among the other D.C. Scholars, she thought that her commitment to community service played a role in the decision...