2012 Juliet Hollister Awards Ceremony Honoree
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1980, and has lived in Washington, Palo Alto, Oxford, New York and London. She holds a B.A. from Stanford, a MPhil from Oxford and a MPH from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Chelsea has worked in the private sector at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital. Currently, Chelsea works at New York University, with the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative and is pursuing a doctorate at Oxford. Her recent professional and academic work, including her recent academic publications, have focused on how to improve access to relatively low-cost, high-quality health care services around the world, as well as questions related to what higher education should look and feel like in a global world. In her advocacy work, Chelsea has focused on questions of empowerment and equal rights, including areas related to health and the arts, particularly on those that concern children.
Chelsea currently serves on the boards of the Clinton Foundation, the School of American Ballet, Common Sense Media and the Weill Cornell Medical College. Chelsea lives with her husband Marc Mezvinsky and their dog Soren in New York City.