Hillary Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell. Rodham was raised in a politically conservative family and canvassed for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater at the age of thirteen. Rodham began Wellesley as a Republican, serving as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans, but factors such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War caused her to change political ideology. Rodham was instrumental in in political scene at Wellesley, organizing a stike following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assasination an recruiting more black students and faculty members. Rodham received a great deal of press, including an article in life magazine, after her Wellesley commencement address. While in law school, Rodham interned at the California law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. After graduating from Yale Law School, Rodham began study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center and published "Children Under the Law" in the Harvard Educational Review in 1973. Rodham also worked at Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children and was a member of impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C during the Watergate scandal.