[1] Rockefeller grew up at Kykuit, the central mansion on his family's estate in Pocantico, Westchester County, in New York State.
In 1999 he was elected chairman of the non-profit organization, Historic Hudson Valley,[2] founded by his grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1951.
[5] In a 2013 article about federal farm subsidy programs, the New York Post reported that 1,500 affluent New Yorkers had received payments.
Among them was Rockefeller, who received $342,634 in farm subsidies over the course of ten years from 2001 to 2011 for allowing farmland to return to its natural condition.
She has a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.