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TIL On 19 November 2020, Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, was awarded Harvard University's 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award, which comes with a prize of US$150,000. She has passed the prize money to New Zealanders studying at the university.

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