doi:10.7916/348e-4831Oral history interview with Lori M. Wallach, 2021Wallach, Lorioral historiesmixed materialPresidents--United StatesInternational trade--Government policy--United StatesWallach, LoriObama, BarackPublic Citizen's Global Trade WatchNorth American Free Trade AgreementTrans-Pacific Partnership AgreementLori M. Wallach discusses her activities during the years of the Obama presidency, throughout which she was director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division. Wallach describes her work at Public Citizen, speaks widely about the history and politics of recent U.S. global trade policy, and evaluates the Obama administration's approach to international trade and the negotiation of major free trade agreements. She provides details about her advocacy surrounding the Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act of 2009 and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and characterizes relations between the Obama administration's international economic staff and stakeholders in Congress and outside of government. Wallach also discusses the long-term continuity of neoliberal trade policy across successive presidential administrations; the Obama administration's promotion of TPP around the time of the 2016 general election; the economic consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement; and the effects of Democratic presidents' support of free trade agreements toward relations with the historic base of the Democratic Party