Petra Smeltzer Starke

About

Entrepreneur and lawyer who founded a chain of yoga studios, SweatNGlow. She wrote the book "How Yoga Changed My Life: My Journey from Communism through the Obama White House through Bikram Yoga to SweatNGlow." She has amassed more than 1 million followers on her petrasmeltzer Instagram account.

Before fame

She studied international business, trade and diplomacy at the Prague School of Economics. She worked as a model.

Trivia

She moved to the United States to attend law school at Georgetown University.  She practiced law at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers.

Family life

She and her husband George Starke have a son named George Lawrence Starke, IV.

Associated with

She served as General Counsel to the White House Council of Economic Advisors and Senior Advisor to Barack Obama.