Mary Kerry Kennedy is an American human rights activist and writer. She is the seventh child and third daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. During her 15-year marriage to current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, she was known as Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo from 1990 to 2005. Kennedy has worked on diverse human rights issues such as children’s rights, child labor, disappearances and indigenous land rights.
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Mary Kerry Kennedy is an American human rights activist and writer. She is the seventh child and third daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. During her 15-year marriage to current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, she was known as Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo from 1990 to 2005. Kennedy has worked on diverse human rights issues such as children’s rights, child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, impunity, and the environment. In 2017, Kennedy received the Medal for Social Activism from the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Bogota, Colombia for her life-long devotion to the pursuit of equal justice. Kennedy is the editor of Being Catholic Now, Prominent Americans talk about Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning; Crown Publishing, Sept. 2008; ISBN 9780307346841. The book includes essays from prominent Catholics, including Nancy Pelosi, Cokie Roberts, now-former Cardinal McCarrick, Sister Joan Chittister, Tom Monaghan, Bill O’Reilly, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Doug Brinkley and others. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University. Kennedy’s life has been devoted to equal justice, to the promotion and protection of basic rights, and to the preservation of the rule of law. She has worked in over 60 countries and led human rights delegations. She established RFK Center Partners for Human Rights in 1986 to ensure the protection of rights under the U.S. Declaration of Human Rights under the N.N.
Convention on Human Rights. She started the RFK Institute which works on sustainable investing with financial community leaders in the community to highlight human rights in foreign policy and foreign policy. In 1988, Kennedy began serving as the president of the Robert. F. Kennedy Center for Human rights. She was the Executive Director of theRobert F. Kennedy Memorial until 1995. In 2018, Kennedy published Robert F Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about Her Father’s Impact on Their Lives. The Book contains interviews from prominent individuals whose lives and careers were influenced by the legacy of Kennedy. Interviewees include Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Bono, Barack Obama, John Lewis and activists including Gloria Steinem and Marian Wright Edelman. She was also involved in causes in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Sudan, and Pakistan. She appeared, age 3, in the 1963 Robert Drew documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, saying hello to U. S. Justice Department official Nicholas Katzenbach by phone from the office of her father, Attorney General at the time. Her father was assassinated in 1968. She received her Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and is the chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council, and her writing has been published in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Times.
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