Chelsea Clinton Follows Parents’ Lead as a Paid Speaker

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She is an advocate for women’s rights, AIDS research and global LGBT rights and other humanitarianism.

In her junior year, Clinton changed her major from medicine to history and began work on her thesis project: the Northern Ireland peace process. After delivering her 167-page thesis, Clinton headed to Oxford University in England to pursue a master's degree in International Relations.

In addition to serving as co-chairperson for her father's Clinton Foundation, the former first daughter is also on the board of the School of American Ballet.


In 2011, Chelsea pushed the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which had historically focused on driving down the prices of HIV and AIDS vaccines, to do the same for Zinc/ORS, the leading treatment for diarrhea, which is the second-leading killer of children under 5 years old in the developing world. One of the first countries it targeted was Nigeria, but negotiating with the government, NGOs, public-sector organizations, pharma companies, and others threatened to endlessly delay the effort. According to Guariglia, the team asked Chelsea if she "could facilitate it--get the right players at the table, get them to commit to this program." After a couple of weeks of intense preparation, Chelsea traveled to Nigeria and "went around to every partner, knew exactly what we needed from them, pledged her support and belief in this program, and got them to commit," says Guariglia. Her academic work (she's finishing her PhD in global health governance) armed her with the ability to talk about the issues, and she was able to get each player to understand how their role was important in the bigger picture. "Without her, it would have taken months of meetings," says Guariglia. Prices of Zinc/ORS have been cut by 40% to 60% in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

In 2013 President Clinton and his daughter traveled through Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawai, and South Africa to advance various Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) goals. After helping to promote malaria awareness and HIV testing, the high-profile duo visited Cyugaro Primary School in Rwanda to help decontaminate drinking water.



The Clintons visit to the Rwandan school was part of CGI and Procter and Gamble's Commitment to Save One Life Every Hour -- a campaign dedicated to providing clean drinking water to areas in need. President Clinton said that such programs provide an effective solution where a lack of access to potable drinking water leads to 80 percent of the diseases from which Rwandans suffer.

“It’s one of the simplest things we can do to save lives,” President Clinton said in a recent press release.

In addition to providing clean water in Rwanda, the Clintons also visited Zanzibar to host a malaria-awareness soccer match, where fans and attendees had access to disease testing.


Hillary and Chelsea Clinton deployed their mother-daughter star power to help the effort to save African elephants, brokering an $80m effort to stop the ivory poaching which threatens the animals with extinction.

The crackdown on 50 poaching hot spots in Africa involves several conservation groups and African governments. But conservation leaders, unveiling the plan at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting, went out of their way to credit Hillary Clinton for giving prominence to the issue of the illegal trade in wildlife while she was secretary of state.

The initiative brings together the main conservation groups, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the African Wildlife Foundation, Conservation International, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the World Wildlife Fund, as well as a number of African governments. These include Botswana, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Kenya, South Sudan, Malawi and Uganda.

more on Chelsea and Bill in Africa: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5163434



. . . sounds like an interesting and enterprising woman who has a lot to offer.