The Newsday.com article "Obama's mother, Hillary Clinton shared a belief" describes how Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Soetero, worked for WWB in New York City, during 1993 and 1994, convening experts, compiling surveys and drafting papers for a major United Nations conference in Beijing, where she hoped to show how much good can be done by lending small sums to poor women. Soetero along with her colleagues brainstormed and agreed that one advocate would electrify their panel: then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The article also quotes former WWB president Nancy Barry on the impact Ann's leadership had in microfinance and the perception of women as the focus of the industry.