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| Born | Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (1990-05-05)May 5, 1990 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 30, 2025(2025-12-30) (aged 35) |
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| Website | tatianaschlossberg |
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (May 5, 1990 – December 30, 2025) was an Americanenvironmental journalist and author. She worked as a science and climate reporter forThe New York Times and wrote for several other publications, includingThe Atlantic,The Washington Post,Vanity Fair, andBloomberg News. Her bookInconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have was published byGrand Central Publishing in 2019.
Schlossberg was a member of theKennedy family andBouvier family. She graduated fromYale University and later earned aMaster of Studies degree inAmerican history from theUniversity of Oxford. She died in 2025 at the age of 35 fromacute myeloid leukemia.
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg was born on May 5, 1990, in New York City atNew York Hospital toEdwin Schlossberg andCaroline Kennedy.[1] She was a granddaughter of 35th U.S. presidentJohn F. Kennedy andFirst LadyJacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.[2]
She and her siblings,Rose andJack, were primarily raised onManhattan'sUpper East Side, and also spent significant time onMartha's Vineyard.[3] Schlossberg's father came from anOrthodox Jewish family ofAshkenazi descent fromUkraine, and her mother is aCatholic ofIrish,French,Scottish, andEnglish descent. She was raised Catholic, though her mother would also "incorporateHanukkah" in the family's holiday celebrations.[4]
Schlossberg attended the all-girlsBrearley School with her sister Rose, and later theTrinity School, from which she graduated in 2008.[2] She graduated fromYale College in 2012 with aBA degree in History.[2] While at Yale, Schlossberg wrote forThe Yale Herald and eventually became the paper's editor-in-chief.[2][5] She received theCharles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant for a research project that "explored the communities that grew out of the relationship between runaway slaves and coastalNew England Native American tribes, particularly on Martha's Vineyard in the nineteenth century".[6] She was also a member of the senior societyMace and Chain.[7] Schlossberg earned a Master of Studies degree in American history fromJesus College, Oxford in 2014.[2][8]
After her studies, Schlossberg interned at theVineyard Gazette inEdgartown, Massachusetts, and later became a municipal reporter atThe Record inBergen County,New Jersey.[6][9]
In 2014, she became a summer intern atThe New York Times, a 10-week program usually given to recent college graduates and a few undergrads.[10] She was eventually[when?] hired as a reporter covering the Metro section. That same year, she wrote a story about a dead bear cub found inCentral Park.[11] In 2024, it was revealed that the cub had been placed there by her relativeRobert F. Kennedy Jr. Responding to the disclosure, Schlossberg said, "Like law enforcement, I had no idea who was responsible for this when I wrote the story."[12]
Schlossberg worked as a science and climate reporter for theTimes until she left the paper in 2017.[13][2] In 2019, she published her debut book,Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, released in August 2019 byGrand Central Publishing.[14][15][16] In 2020, the book won first place in theSociety of Environmental Journalists'Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.[17]
Schlossberg took part in presenting the annualProfile in Courage Award at theJohn F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston,[18] and accompanied her mother,Caroline Kennedy, during the latter's engagements as ambassador in Japan and Australia.[19]
"I have added a new tragedy to [my mother's] life, to our family's life, and there's nothing I can do to stop it."
On the 50th anniversary ofthe assassination of her grandfatherJohn F. Kennedy, in 2013, Schlossberg delivered remarks and participated in awreath-laying ceremony at his memorial atRunnymede inSurrey, which had been unveiled in 1965 by QueenElizabeth II and Schlossberg's grandmother Jacqueline.[21]
On September 9, 2017, Schlossberg married physician George Moran at her family's estate on Martha's Vineyard.[22] The two met as undergraduates at Yale.[23] The couple had a son in 2022[24] and a daughter in 2024.[25]
Immediately after the birth of her daughter, Schlossberg was diagnosed withacute myeloid leukemia. On November 22, 2025, Schlossberg revealed in an essay inThe New Yorker that her leukemia had developed "a rare mutation calledInversion3", which made it a terminal form of the disease. Abone marrow transplant,chemotherapy, and a clinical trial ofCAR-Tcell therapy were unable to slow the progression of the leukemia, and her doctors informed her that she had one year to live.[26][27][28] Schlossberg died on December 30, 2025, at the age of 35.[25][29][30] Her funeral was held on January 5, 2026, at theChurch of St. Ignatius Loyola inManhattan, the same church where the funeral of her maternal grandmother, Jacqueline, had been held in 1994.[31]
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