Personal Life
While Rhee was teaching, she met Kevin Huffman, who was also a member of Teach for America and later became head of public affairs of the organization. The couple married two years after they met and had two daughters before they divorced in 2007. Their children attended the Oyster-Adams public elementary school, considered one of the best in Washington D.C., while Rhee was chancellor.
In March 2010, Rhee became engaged to Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento, California and former NBA player. The two married in September 2011 in a small ceremony at Blackberry Farm near Knoxville, Tennessee.
Rhee wrote her first book, Radical: Fighting to Put Students First?, which is part autobiography and part on educational reform, that was published in 2013. To publicize the book she appeared on The Daily Show, Frontline, and This Week. The Washington Post called the book a "memoir/manifesto", said that the book is missing several events during her time as D.C. schools chancellor, and that Rhee "sounds like a radical humbled by a dose of realism".
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