nadrea is one of these. she is a fourth grader in kentucky, lives in a housing project being taken down by the city and goes to a school that is dramatically underfunded. and wrote to president obama, basically explaining these sort of dire circumstances, this train wreck every day when she went to this underfunded school and asked for his help fixing these problems. and one of the amazing things about these letters was sometimes, you know, the transformative effect that they could have on the lives of the people who wrote them. and also occasionally, the impact that they would have on the president. so the president in this case got nadrea's letter, used some of it in big education reform speeches, tried to implement a few of her little suggestions. and she meanwhile because he was broadcasting her letter, became an education advocate in her little area of kentucky. by the time i was there in kentucky writing about her and her school, she was giving speeches to the superintendents there, and sort of trying