O'Brien's parents, both immigrants, met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1958.
My parents were both immigrants—my mother from Cuba, my father from Australia.
Both attended daily Mass at the church near campus. Every day my father would offer my mother a ride.
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Every day, she declined. Finally she said yes. One year later, the day after Christmas, the two of them were married.[4]
O'Brien's parents married in 1959 in Washington, D.C.. Her father Edward, an Australian (from Toowoomba, Queensland[5]) of Irish descent, was a mechanical engineering professor.[6] Her mother Estella, who is Afro-Cuban was a French and English teacher.[6] O'Brien is the fifth of six children, who all graduated from Harvard University.
Her older siblings are law professor Maria (b.
1961); corporate lawyer Cecilia (b. 1962), Tony (b.