Chlöe Swarbrick
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green Party List |
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Assumed office 23 September 2017 |
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26 June 1994 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Political party | Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand |
| Website | chloeswarbrick |
Chlöe Swarbrick (born 26 June 1994) is a New Zealand politician and entrepreneur. Following a high-profile but unsuccessful run for the 2016 Auckland mayoral election, she became a candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, standing in the 2017 New Zealand general election.
Swarbrick was born in Auckland in 1994, and went to Epsom Girls' Grammar School. She entered the University of Auckland at age 17, and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.
In 2012, Swarbrick opened her first business, a New Zealand-made fashion label called The Lucid Collective, with her partner Alex Bartley Catt. Around the same time, she began working in the newsroom at the student radio station 95bFM, where she worked as a news writer and news reader, before becoming a producer and eventually host of The Wire. In April 2016, she officially resigned from her position as a regular host.
In 2014, Swarbrick began writing for What's Good magazine. She would eventually become Editor and Chief, and an owner. Later that year, The Lucid Collective held a New Zealand Fashion Week side-show at the Gow Langsford Gallery and participated in the "Youthquake" exhibition at the New Zealand Fashion Museum. The label went on to be stocked across Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, before Swarbrick and Bartley Catt decided to close the business in order to focus on other projects.
Swarbrick began The Goods, an offshoot of What's Good, in late 2015. The project opened a pop-up store in St Kevin's Arcade on Karangahape Road. Swarbrick was consequently recognised for contribution to the local community with a New Zealander of the Year Local Hero Award.
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