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Michelle Obama Visits "BookTube"

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In honor of International Women’s Day, Michelle Obama appears with three YouTube stars in a special about Creators for Change on Girls’ Education.

We previously reported, the former first lady dishes with Liza Koshy, Prajakta Koli and Thembe Mahlaba about the state of girls’ education around the world, for a special that debuts Tuesday (March 17) on YouTube, PEOPLE reports.

Viewers will also hear from female voices from Vietnam, India and Namibia — where the creators visited various educational programs supported by the Girls Opportunity Alliance.

“There is value and importance and absolute necessity for us to be investing in girls in the same way that we are investing in boys,” Obama says in the trailer (see above).

“As young leaders, you guys are going to be the change agents,” she tells Koshy, Koli and Mahlaba. “I’m going to be sitting in my wheelchair, ‘Look at them!’ “

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