48 Facts About Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky

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Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born on February 27,1980 and is an American writer and global health advocate.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is the only child of former US President Bill Clinton and former US Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014 and now works with the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, including taking a prominent role at the foundation with a seat on its board.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, during her father's first term as governor.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky attended public schools there until he was elected president and the family moved to the White House, where she began attending the private Sidwell Friends School.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky received an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and later earned master's degrees from University of Oxford and Columbia University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford in 2014.

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In 2007 and 2008, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky campaigned extensively on American college campuses for her mother's Democratic presidential nomination bid and introduced her at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky assumed a similar role in her mother's 2016 presidential campaign, making more than 200 public appearances as her surrogate and again introducing her at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky has authored and co-authored best-selling children's non-fiction books and co-authored a scholarly book for adults on global health policy, as well as articles and opinion pieces published in major media outlets.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 27,1980, the only child of Hillary and Bill Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky's name was inspired by a visit to the Chelsea neighborhood of London during a Christmas 1978 vacation.

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When Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was two years old, she accompanied her parents as they campaigned throughout Arkansas for her father's gubernatorial race.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts and Science Magnet Elementary School and Horace Mann Junior High School, both Little Rock public schools.

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Hillary Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky followed the advice of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on raising children in the White House, and asked the press to limit coverage of Chelsea to her participation in public events such as state visits.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky graduated from Sidwell in 1997; her father spoke at the graduation ceremony.

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An adult group leader thought Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky to be "a terrific kid" and observed that she was treated as an equal in the group.

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At age four, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky had begun taking dance classes in Arkansas, and she continued her dance training at the Washington School of Ballet for several years.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was cast in the role of the Favorite Aunt in the 1993 Washington Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky entered Stanford University in the fall of 1997 and majored in history.

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20.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, with highest honors, at Stanford in 2001.

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21.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was criticized for those remarks in the London press and by the newspaper Oxford Student, whose editorial attacking her angered the university.

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At Oxford University in 2003, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky completed a Master of Philosophy degree in international relations.

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23.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is the co-founder of the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership at NYU and serves as its co-chair.

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In 2011, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky transferred back to University College, Oxford, from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University to complete her Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky stated this was to be under her preferred doctoral advisor, Ngaire Woods.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky finished her dissertation in New York City and was awarded the degree in May 2014.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky's dissertation was titled The Global Fund: An Experiment in Global Governance.

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In 2012, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky received an award from interfaith organization Temple of Understanding for her "work in advancing a new model of integrating interfaith and cross-cultural education into campus life", together with Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky served as co-chair for a fund-raising week for the Clinton Foundation, and subsequently became Vice Chair for the foundation.

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30.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky serves on the board of the School of American Ballet and on IAC's board of directors.

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31.

In March 2017, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was named to the board of directors of Expedia Group.

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32.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky reportedly earned an annual salary of $600,000 for her work at NBC.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is the author of five children's picture books, two of which were best sellers, and she co-authored a scholarly book about global health policy.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky has written numerous articles and opinion pieces, published in major media outlets, such as CNN, Time magazine, Huffington Post, Refinery 29 and others.

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Since 2011, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky has taken a prominent role at the family's Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky Foundation, and has had a seat on its board.

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In 2018, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky wrote a companion book featuring women around the world, published by Philomel and illustrated by Boiger, entitled She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History which debuted at No 2 on the Times' Children's Picture Books Best Sellers list and remained on the list for 40 weeks.

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In 2019, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky published her fifth children's book, Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky continued her children's "She Persisted" series in 2020 with She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game, published by Philomel.

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In 2019, she co-wrote a book with her mother, Hillary Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, titled The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience and they embarked on a multi-city book tour together.

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40.

In December 2007, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky began campaigning in Iowa in support of her mother's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky appeared across the country, largely on college campuses.

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Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky gave birth to her second child during the campaign, five weeks before the convention, and she frequently spoke about motherhood and the issues women face in balancing work and home, including the challenges of breastfeeding.

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At one appearance in September 2016, while answering a question about her mother's position supporting medical marijuana research, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky got some attention for an inaccurate comment she made regarding drug interactions with marijuana; she walked back the comment a few days later, acknowledging that she misspoke.

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44.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is Jewish, but Clinton remained a Methodist and did not convert to Judaism.

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45.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is portrayed in the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, where Butt-Head flirts with her at the White House; she responds by tossing him out a window.

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46.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is the direct inspiration for the 2004 film Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore and Matthew Goode.

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47.

In January 2015, Chelsea Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky appeared in a Sesame Street skit with Elmo, advocating the importance of reading to young children.

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48.

Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky appeared in the final scene of series 3, episode 7 of British sitcom Derry Girls.

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