Petra Smeltzer Starke
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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.