Oakland, CA–February 4, 2008. Days before Californians and voters in more than 20 other states go to the polls, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton visited Mills College on Saturday, February 2, and answered questions from young voters about her mother, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, and her run to become the country's next and first woman president.

Mills College President Janet l. Holmgren and Mills student leaders Alex Widmann and Ashlie McDonald introduced Clinton before a crowd of almost 300 students and community members who packed the Mills College Student Union.

After a warm Mills cheer from the crowd: "Strong Women! Proud Women! All-Women! Mills Women!'' Clinton immediately jumped in and answered questions that ranged from immigration to welfare to gay rights.

Clinton said of her mother: ''I am more proud of her than anyone I've ever known or met or imagined.''

She also revealed personal tidbits such as she didn't like her current healthcare plan; her father grilled her on the multiplication tables; her mother awarded her for learning vocabulary words; she attended math camp; and she rarely spent a night without one or both parents during her father's first presidential run.

Clinton declined to reveal what it was like growing up in the White House. ''I don't know what it's like to grow up in any other reality,'' she said. However, she did say she has no plans of her own to run for public office.

Clinton's event received wide-range media coverage, including mention in several national media outlets and coverage in local television, radio, and print media.

It was Clinton's only appearance in northern California before the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses. The hedge-fund employee, 27, has taken time off from her job at the New York City-based Avenue Capital Group, to travel the country and speak to college students and young professionals.

Clinton graduated from Stanford University in 2001 with a degree in history. She also earned a master's degree in international relations from the University College at Oxford, where her father, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, was a Rhodes Scholar in 1968-70.

Clinton also appears in video footage in a work of art made by a Mills alumna currently on exhibition at the Mills College Art Museum. The exhibition, entitled We Interrupt Your Program, is a politically oriented exhibition of work by women.

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is a graduate of a women's college, Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Her campaign recently invited Mills College President Holmgren to speak at the National Women's Finance Council Summit in Washington D.C., a conference of women leaders from around the nation.

Mills College is non-partisan and does not endorse any candidate for office. The College considers part of its educational mission to offer these opportunities for the community.

Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California, Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering a dynamic progressive education that fosters leadership, social responsibility, and creativity to approximately 900 undergraduate women and 500 graduate women and men. Since 2000, applications to Mills College have more than doubled. The college ranks as one of the top colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report and one of the Best 366 Colleges by the Princeton Review.

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