Ariana Rockefeller

In January 2021, she reported that she had closed the business "a couple of years ago". She has publicly opposed other members of her family, regarding fossil fuel divestment and defending ExxonMobil.

• Name — Ariana Rockefeller • Born — 26 May 1982 • Education — Columbia University (BA) • Occupation — Fashion designer, equestrian • Parents — David Rockefeller Jr. Diana Newell Rockefeller • Relatives — See Rockefeller family

Ariana Rockefeller was born to David Rockefeller Jr. and Diana Newell Rockefeller. Her hometown is Cambridge, Massachusetts, but she was raised in New York and Maine. Her paternal grandfather, David Rockefeller, was a billionaire businessman and the former chairman of Chase Bank from 1969 to 1981 as well as chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985. She attended the Ethel Walker School, an all-girls boarding school in Connecticut. She competed on the equestrian team in high school, during which time she took an interest in show jumping. She graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Political Science in 2009. As a college student, she interned at the United Nations.

Rockefeller launched her own fashion line in 2011. In 2014, she opened a pop-up shop in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. She added a line of handbags in 2016 after hiring handbag designer Bassam Ali. In January 2021, she reported that she closed her fashion business "a couple of years ago".

Rockefeller began riding horses when she was three years old. She competed on the equestrian team in high school, during which time she took an interest in show jumping. She took a break from riding in college, and resumed by partaking in competitive show jumping in 2012. In 2015, Rockefeller placed fourth in the Hampton Classic.

In May 2021, Rockefeller signed with Marilyn Agency in New York to work on special projects in their talent division.

Rockefeller has served on the board of the nonprofit David Rockefeller Fund. Rockefeller supports the Humane Society of the United States. She is a board member of God's Love We Deliver and a Junior Associate of the Museum of Modern Art. Rockefeller has chaired the New York Botanical Garden's Winter Ball for several years. She also continues her family tradition of involvement and interest in ancient Greek culture and archaeology.

In a 2016 interview on CBS This Morning, she spoke out against the #Exxonknew campaign that was started by members of the Rockefeller family, among them her cousin David Kaiser, son of Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, and distant relative, Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, daughter of former Senator Jay Rockefeller, revealing a sharp divide within the family over its legacy in the petroleum industry and fossil fuel divestment. She also criticized the ongoing campaign to target ExxonMobil, a company that her family founded, as "deeply misguided" and "counterproductive" to Exxon's ongoing good work in clean and renewable energy in a New York Times piece.

On September 4, 2010, Rockefeller married entrepreneur Matthew Bucklin. Their divorce was filed in April and finalized in October 2019.