Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Kerry Kennedy - President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights - Creating A More Just And Peaceful World
Kerry Kennedy is President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (https://rfkhumanrights.org/), a human rights advocacy organization, founded by her mother Ethel Kennedy and named after her father United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and which is dedicated to creating a more just and peaceful world, working alongside local human rights activists to ensure lasting positive change in governments and corporations. Kerry 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, working 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. Kerry is the author of multiple books, including Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope, and the New York Times Bestseller Being Catholic Now. She appears regularly as a commentator on national and worldwide television networks, and is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. Kerry served as Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council for over a decade, serves on the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace, Human Rights First, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Laureate and Leaders, Nizami Ganjavi International Center, HealthEVillages, as well as RFK Human Rights’ numerous international chapters. She is on the Advisory Committee for the Association of American Indian Affairs, the Albert Schweitzer Institute, Sankofa, San Patrignano, and the Center for Victims of Torture. Kerry has received high honors from President Lech Walesa of Poland for aiding the Solidarity movement, The Humanitarian award from the Congress of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and many other honors. A member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars, Kerry is a graduate of Brown University and Boston College Law School. She holds honorary doctorates of law from Le Moyne College, University of San Francisco Law School, and University of New Caledonia, and honorary doctorates of Humane Letters from Bay Path College and the Albany College of Pharmacy.