Michelle Obama’s former Secret Service agent tells of racist encounters Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras (Instagram – @evypoumpoura) A former Secret Service agent who helped protect Michelle Obama said she felt bad because she could do nothing to prevent the racial abuse that the former first lady was subjected to routinely. Evy Poumpouras was an agent in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during both Bush administrations as well as the Clinton and Obama presidencies. She poured her thoughts on her career into her 2020 memoir, Becoming Bulletproof. Poumpouras indicates Obama was treated differently by a segment of the U.S. population despite her designation as a dignitary.