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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is coming to Cambridge. The politician said she has accepted dual fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School.
Ardern will spend a semester at the school beginning in the fall — which she said "helpfully...falls during the NZ general election!"
She'll spend the fall as the 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow and as a Hauser Leader in the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Harvard Kennedy runs the Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellowship as an off-ramp to public life for leaders to reflect on their time in office with students and faculty.
Ardern will study content moderation and ways to crack down on extremism online for the Center for Public Leadership. Her leadership during the deadly 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings won acclaim from gun reform advocates when her government enacted a semi-automatic weapons ban nationwide in about a month.
The former world leader suddenly stepped down from public life this winter, declaring that she "no longer had enough in the tank" to continue as prime minister.
It's not a permanent move for the former minister: "I’ll be coming back at the end of the fellowships. After all, New Zealand is home!" she said.
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