President Obama’s 2023 March Madness picks

March Madness is here—and with it comes our annual tradition of sharing President Obama’s brackets!

Check out the President’s picks for the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Basketball Championship below.

On and off the court, we inspire changemakers to take action and empower them with tools and connections to change their world for the better.

Last summer, the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance sent four Chicago students across the pond to participate in a cultural exchange program at Ravensbourne University London, which was hosted by Vault49. For two weeks, one spent in London and the other in Chicago, MBK program participants joined together with students from London to explore how basketball culture influences the fashion, art, design, and music of their cities.

Check out what the students learned on their cultural exchange journey.

As March Madness continues, we’re thrilled to share that nearly one dozen bright young men and women will represent the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and the Girls Opportunity Alliance in Houston, Texas during the NCAA men’s and women’s Final Four tournaments.

To help you celebrate March Madness all tournament long, we created basketball-themed digital stickers and backgrounds!

The stickers were designed by participants of the London cultural exchange program. In addition to being featured as part of our March Madness 2023 coverage, our participants’ designs were showcased at Nike and Jordan Brand’s Future Forward Festival on event signage, the basketball court, and on custom jerseys, which were worn by the Brixton TopCats basketball team and other prominent European ball players.