Robert F. Kennedy Jr
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | |
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Kennedy in 2017
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. January 17, 1954 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Emily Black (m. 1982; div. 1994) Mary Richardson (m. 1994; div. 2010) Cheryl Hines (m. 2014) |
| Children | Robert III, Kathleen, Conor, Kyra, Finbar, and Aidan |
| Parents |
Robert F. Kennedy Ethel Skakel |
| Relatives | See Kennedy family |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (BA) London School of Economics University of Virginia (JD) Pace University (LLM) |
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental attorney, author, activist, entrepreneur, and radio host. Kennedy serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group which he helped found in 1999. He is the chairman of World Mercury Project (WMP), an advocacy group that seeks to reduce and eliminate mercury exposure from industry and pharmaceuticals such as vaccines.
Kennedy served from 1986 until 2017 as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit environmental organization. He served from 1984 until 2017 as board member and chief prosecuting attorney for Hudson Riverkeeper.
For over thirty years Kennedy has been a professor of Environmental Law at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York. Until August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School’s Environmental Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987. He is currently professor emeritus at Pace.
Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers and three children's books.
Kennedy was born in Washington, D.C. He is the third of eleven children of Senator and former Attorney General Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and is a nephew of World War II casualty Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr., U.S. President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, and longtime Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy were also his uncles. His aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded Special Olympics, and his aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith, is a former US ambassador to Ireland.
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