Chelsea Clinton Career Back in Public View
Chelsea Clinton will be working for NBC News. She will be a special correspondent for "NBC Nightly News" on a special segment called "Making a Difference." Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, joins the network where two other famous political daughters have been working. Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former president George W. Bush, works for "The Today Show." Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, will be a contributor to MSNBC.
Chelsea Clinton's career will be thrust back into the public spotlight after several years going to college and working in the private sector. Here is a look at Clinton's career after her time as part of the First Family in the White House.
College
The daughter of Bill Clinton first went to Stanford University while the family was still in the White House. The New York Times reported Chelsea Clinton chose the West Coast university over Ivy League schools Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown. The Biography Channel states Clinton originally went to school for a pre-med degree.
Oxford University came calling in 2001 when BBC News reported Chelsea Clinton went to the venerable institution for a Master of Philosophy in International Relations. Bill Clinton attended Oxford from 1968 to 1970. Upon graduation, the younger Clinton went on to an immediate career.
Work
The former first daughter began working for McKinsey & Company as soon a! s she gr aduated from Oxford. Despite being just 22 years old, the famous New York firm hired Chelsea Clinton to help with the management consulting firm, according to the Guardian.
After her time at McKinsey & Company, Chelsea Clinton embarked upon a venture with Avenue Capital Group. MSNBC reported in 2006 that she signed on with the hedge fund group whose co-founder Marc Lasry had donated large sums of money to political campaigns of prominent Democrats.
Latest Ventures
Chelsea Clinton's latest ventures have been more personal. The New York Daily News reported in December 2007 that she was in Iowa helping her mother run for president in 2008. Hillary Clinton ran for president on the Democratic ticket but came in second to then-Sen. Barack Obama.
Two and a half years later, the Clinton family received an extra into their fold when Chelsea Clinton married long-time friend Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, N.Y. The New York Times states tiny town in upstate New York was a media encampment in late July 2010 when the bride said "I do" to the man she met at Stanford and later dated upon returning to the United States.
Chelsea Clinton also does a lot of work for her father's foundation. She is an honorary chair of the William J. Clinton Foundation that has had a decade of service. Bill Clinton was honored with a 10th anniversary salute and 65th birthday party in Los Angeles! from Oc t. 14-16, 2011.
William Browning is a research librarian.