Kerry kennedy biography video
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Kerry Kennedy is president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Under her leadership, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights partners with the bravest people on earth to create lasting change. She is the proud mother of three daughters, Cara, Mariah, and Michaela. A human rights activist and lawyer, she authored New York Times best seller Being Catholic Now, as well as Speak Truth to Power and Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope.
The seventh of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy’s eleven children, Kerry Kennedy has devoted more than 40 years to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She works on a range of issues, including child labor, women’s rights, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, criminal justice reform, immigration, impunity, and environmental justice.
She has led hundreds of human rights delegations in support of these causes.&nbs
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Kerry Kennedy reflects on her father's life in book
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Kerry Kennedy
American human rights activist (born 1959)
For the Colorado State Treasurer, see Cary Kennedy.
Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American lawyer, author, and human rights activist. She is a daughter of former United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, and a niece of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
She is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a non-profit human rights advocacy organization.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Mary Kerry Kennedy was born on September 8, 1959, in Washington, D.C., to parents Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. Three days after her birth, her father resigned as chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee to run his brother's campaign for presidency.[2] Kennedy spent her childhood between the family's homes in McLean, Virginia and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.[3][4] She appeared at age 3 in the 1963 Rob