Kerry Kennedy
President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. For more than thirty years, Ms. Kennedy has devoted herself to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She has concentrated specifically on women’s rights, exposing injustices and educating audiences about women’s issues. She has worked in over 60 countries and led hundreds of human rights delegations.
She is the author of Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which features interviews with human rights activists including Marian Wright Edelman, the Dalai Lama, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ms. Kennedy is also the author of Being Catholic Now. She appears regularly on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PBS as well as on networks in countries around the world, and her commentaries and articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, L’Unita, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Marie Claire, The New York Times, El Pais, and the Yale Journal of International Law, among others.
Ms. Kennedy was honored with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism, given by Alec Baldwin, at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.
Twitter: @kerrykennedyRFK
