Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump also known as Yael Kushner ^[3] She is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, author, and reality television personality who is currently the senior advisor to the president of the United States.^[1][2] She is the daughter and second child of President Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana. She is the first Jewish member of a first family, having converted before marrying her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner.^{[5][6][7][12]}

She^[13] was born in Manhattan, New York City, and is the second child of Czech-American model Ivana (née Zelníčková) and Donald Trump, who in 2017 became the 45th president of the United States.^[14] Her father has German^[15] and Scottish ancestry^[16] and her mother has Czech and Austrian ancestry.^[17] For most of her life, she has been nicknamed "Ivanka", a diminutive form of Ivana.^[18] Her parents divorced in 1992 when she was ten years old.^[14][19] She has two brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric, a half-sister, Tiffany, and a half-brother, Barron.^[24]

Trump briefly worked for Forest City Enterprises as a real estate project manager.^[25] In 2005, she joined the family business as Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the Trump Organization.^[26]

In 2007, she formed a partnership with Dynamic Diamond Corp., the company of diamond vendor Moshe Lax, to create Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, a line of diamond and gold jewelry sold at her first flagship retail store in Manhattan.^[27][28] In November 2011, her retail flagship moved from Madison Avenue to 109 Mercer Street, a larger space in the fashionable SoHo district.^[29][30]

She also had her own line of Ivanka Trump fashion items, including clothes, handbags, shoes, and accessories, available in major U.S. and Canadian department stores including Macy's and Hudson's Bay.^[34] Her brand was criticized for allegedly copying designs by other designers,^[35][36] and by PETA and other animal rights activists for using fur from rabbits.^[37][38] In 2016, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled Ivanka Trump-branded scarves because they did not meet federal flammability standards.^[39][40] A 2016 analysis found that most of the fashion line was produced outside the U.S.^[41] Ivanka Trump-brand shoes have been supplied by Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan and Hangzhou HS Fashion (via G-III Apparel Group) in Zhejiang.^[43]

When Trump was attending boarding school as a teenager, she got into modeling "on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year," according to her mother, Ivana Trump.^[49] She was featured in print advertisements for Tommy Hilfiger and Sasson Jeans^[50][51] and walked fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler.^[49] In May 1997, she was featured on the cover of Seventeen which ran a story on "celeb moms & daughters".^[52][49]

Trump joined the Trump Organization in an executive position.

Soon after that, she started her jewelry, shoe, and apparel lines, and appeared in advertisements promoting the Trump Organization and her products.

She was also featured in women's and special interest publications in "soft-hitting" profiles focusing on "looks, lifestyles, and product lines" and was featured on the cover of some issues, such as Harper's Bazaar, Forbes Life, Golf Magazine, Town & Country, and Vogue.^[53][54] She was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007.^{[55][521][72][73]}

In 2015, she publicly endorsed her father's presidential campaign. She was involved with the campaign by making public appearances to support and defend him.^[74][75][76] However, she admitted mixed feelings about his presidential ambitions, saying in October 2015, "As a citizen, I love what he's doing. As a daughter, it's obviously more complicated."^[77] In August 2015, Donald Trump stated that she was his leading advisor on "women's health and women" and said it was she who propelled him to elaborate on his views of women.^[78][79]

In January 2016, Trump was featured in a radio ad that aired in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, in which she praised her father.^[80][81] She appeared by his side following the results of early voting states in 2016, in particular briefly speaking in South Carolina.^[82][83] She was not able to vote in the New York primary in April 2016 because she had missed the October 2015 deadline to change her registration from independent to Republican.^{[84][91][92][100]}

In 2007, Trump donated $1,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.^[138] In 2012, Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president.^[139] In 2013, Trump and her husband hosted a fundraiser for Democrat Cory Booker, and the couple bundled more than $40,000 for Booker's U.S. Senate campaign.^[140] Trump advocates for women and Israel.^[141] At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Trump said of her political views: "Like many of my fellow millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat."^[142]

Trump has a close relationship with her father, who has publicly expressed his admiration for her on several occasions.^[150][151] Ivanka has likewise praised her father, complimenting his leadership skills and saying he empowers other people.^[152]

Sarah Ellison, writing for Vanity Fair in 2018, indicated Ivanka Trump was the family member that "everyone in the family seems to acknowledge" is Donald Trump's "favorite" child.^[153] This had been confirmed by the family members themselves in a 2015 interview with Barbara Walters on network television where the siblings were gathered and acknowledged that she was the favorite among the siblings.^[154][166]

Trump was raised as a Presbyterian Christian.^[167] She converted to Orthodox Judaism in July 2009,^[168][169] after studying with Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox Ramaz School.^[170] Trump took the Hebrew name "Yael".^[171][172] She describes her conversion as an "amazing and beautiful journey" which her father supported "from day one", adding that he has "tremendous respect" for the Jewish religion.^[141] She attests to keeping a kosher diet and observing the Jewish Sabbath, saying in 2015: "We're pretty observant... It's been such a great life decision for me... I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity. From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls."^[173] When living in New York City, Trump used to send her daughter to kindergarten at a Jewish school. She said: "It's such a blessing for me to have her come home every night and share with me the Hebrew that she's learned and sing songs for me around the holidays."^[141]

Trump and her husband made a pilgrimage to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a popular prayer site, shortly before her father's election victory.^[168][174] On May 22, 2017, Trump and Kushner also traveled with her father on the first official visit to Israel by the Trump administration, when her father made the first visit to the Western Wall by a sitting U.S. president.^[175] Ivanka also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in western Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem during the trip.^[176]

She has been mentioned with regards to the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel.^[177][178]

In 2012, the Wharton Club of New York, the official alumni association of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for the New York metropolitan area,^[179] gave Trump the Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership, one of their four annual awards for Wharton alumni.^[180]