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UP AND COMING
JACINDA
ARDERN
"Let’s Do This"
I t’s Jacindamania – there is no
denying the surge of enthusiasm
surrounding New Zealand’s Prime
Minister Jacinda Ardern, who at
age 37 became the youngest female world
leader. The energetic Prime Minister has a
clear mission: to make New Zealand a global
player.
Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, Prime
Minister Ardern graduated from the
University of Waikato with a Bachelor of
Communication Studies in Politics and Public
Relations. She is quick-witted, intelligent, and
boasts an appealing aesthetic, as witnessed in
the feature on Ardern in the March edition
of Vogue. She is attempting to combat some
big issues, including better housing, poverty
reduction for the poor, nuclear disarmament,
and climate change, as well as a promise to
protect the country’s heritage, its environment
and the future of its children. Prime Minister
Ardern is vocal about these and many issues.
She encourages women to, “Make your voices
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heard because no country can truly prosper
without you.”
A business as usual attitude was her
response to the baby-mania surrounding the
announcement of her pregnancy in January
of this year. She remarked, “I’m pregnant,
not incapacitated.” The Prime Minister will
take a six-week maternity leave, with Deputy
Winston Peters taking charge in the Prime
Minister’s stead, until her return. Clarke The Governor-General of New Zealand (centre)
Gayford, Ardern’s partner, and television’s with Winston Peters and Jacinda Ardern
“first man of fishing” will stay home with the
newborn.
Prime Minister Ardern’s poise, charm and
well-spoken thoughtfulness is setting the
leadership bar high as she lives and breathes
the Labour Party slogan, “Let’s do this,” every
single day.
In April of this year TIME magazine named
New Zealand’s Prime Minister one of 2018’s
top 100 most influential people in the world.