Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been awarded a prestigious fellowship by Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Ardern, who became the darling of the globalist left for waging a war on free speech and imposing one of the world’s strictest COVID lockdowns on her country, will be moving to Massachusetts later this year, where she will teach “leadership” to future world leaders, news reports suggest.
“Ardern has taken up three new roles at Harvard University, where she will study and speak on leadership, governance and online extremism,” the British newspaper The Guardian reported Wednesday.
Ardern stepped down from her post in early 2023 as her poll numbers tanked ahead of the country’s election later this spring. She claimed work-related stress and mental health issues led her to that decision, winning accolades from the mainstream media.
Reuters reported details of the Harvard fellowship:
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday that she was taking up three fellowships at Harvard University later in 2023. (…)Harvard University said in a statement she had been appointed to dual fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School and to a concurrent fellowship at the Berkman Klein Center.“I am incredibly humbled to be joining Harvard University as a fellow – not only will it give me the opportunity to share my experience with others, it will give me a chance to learn,” Ardern said in the statement.She added on Instagram that the fellowship at the Berkman Klein Center would not only be a chance to work collaboratively with the center’s research community, but also to work on the challenges around the growth of generative AI tools.
Ardern subjected the country to a zero-COVID policy, destroying businesses and forcing people indoors for months. Her policy “effectively shutting the nation of five million off from all physical contact with the outside world,” UK weekly Spectator noted.
During her six years in office, Ardern worked hard to erode liberties and rights traditionally enjoyed by the New Zealanders. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Ardern called free speech on the internet a new ‘weapon of war.’ She railed against those who used their free speech to challenge the climate change agenda. “How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?” she complained.
Ardern undertook sweeping measures to disarm the citizenry. After a tragic mosque shooting in 2019, she introduced a law seeking to curtail citizens’ right to own guns, declaring that “owning a firearm is a privilege not a right.” Her government banned semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15 and forced gun owners to surrender more than 50,ooo firearms to avoid legal measures under her ‘amnesty’ scheme.
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