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| Born | Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (1990-05-05)May 5, 1990 (age 35) New York City, U.S. |
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| Website | tatianaschlossberg |
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (born May 5, 1990) is an Americanenvironmental journalist and author. She was a science and climate reporter forThe New York Times, and has also written for several publications and outlets includingThe Atlantic,The Washington Post,Vanity Fair, andBloomberg. She is the author of the bookInconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have published byGrand Central Publishing in 2019.
Born and raised in New York City, Schlossberg is a graduate ofYale University and theUniversity of Oxford, where she obtained hermasters inAmerican history. She is a daughter of designerEdwin Schlossberg and diplomatCaroline Kennedy, and a granddaughter ofJohn F. Kennedy (the 35th president of theUnited States) andFirst LadyJacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Schlossberg was born atWeill Cornell Medical Center inLenox Hill, New York, on May 5, 1990,[1] to designer and artistEdwin Schlossberg and author and diplomatCaroline Kennedy. She is a granddaughter of 35th U.S. presidentJohn F. Kennedy andFirst LadyJacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.[2]
She and her two siblings,Rose andJack, were primarily raised inManhattan'sUpper East Side, and also spent significant time at their maternal grandmother Jacqueline's estate onMartha's Vineyard growing up.[3]
Schlossberg's father comes from anOrthodox Jewish family ofAshkenazi Jewish descent from Ukraine, and her mother is aCatholic ofIrish,French,Scottish, andEnglish descent. She was raised Catholic, but her mother would also "incorporate Hanukkah" in the family's holiday party.[4] In 1996, she served as aflower girl to her uncleJohn F. Kennedy Jr.'s wedding.[5]
Schlossberg attended the all-girlsBrearley School, which she attended with her sister Rose, and theTrinity School, from which she graduated in 2008.[2] She graduated fromYale University in 2012 with a BA in History.
While at Yale, Schlossberg wrote for theYale Herald and eventually became the paper's editor-in-chief.[2][6] She was awarded theCharles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant for her research project, which "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."[7] She was also a member of the senior societyMace and Chain.[8]
Schlossberg went on to receive hermasters inAmerican history from theUniversity of Oxford in 2014.[9]
After her studies, Schlossberg had an internship at theVineyard Gazette inEdgartown, Massachusetts, and she became a municipal reporter atThe Record inNew Jersey.[7]
In 2014, she became a summer intern ofThe New York Times, a 10-week internship usually given to recent college graduates and a few undergrads.[10] She was eventually hired as a reporter covering the Metro section.
In 2014, she wrote a story about a dead bear cub found inCentral Park, and in 2024, it was revealed that the cub had been placed there by her relative,Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[11] Schlossberg responded to the revelation, saying "like law enforcement, I had no idea who was responsible for this when I wrote the story."[12]
Schlossberg was a science and climate reporter for theTimes until she left the paper in 2017.[13][2]
In 2019, Schlossberg published her debut bookInconspicuous 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 has taken part in presenting the annualProfile in Courage Award at theJohn F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston,[18] and has accompanied her motherCaroline in her engagements as ambassador in Japan and Australia.[19]
Upon the 50th anniversary of theassassination of her grandfatherJohn F. Kennedy, in 2013, Schlossberg delivered remarks and took part in a ceremonialwreath-laying ceremony at his memorial atRunnymede in Surrey which had been unveiled by theQueen Elizabeth II and Schlossberg's grandmotherJacqueline in 1965.[20]
On September 9, 2017, Schlossberg married physician George Moran at her family's estate on Martha's Vineyard.[21] They met as undergraduates at Yale.[22] The couple has a son, Edwin, born in 2022,[23] and a daughter, born in May 2024.
In 2024, immediately after the birth of her daughter, Schlossberg was diagnosed withacute myeloid leukemia. In November 2025, she said her diagnosis is terminal and that doctors have told her that she has one year to live.[24][25]
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