Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, an American environmental journalist and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died of acute myeloid leukemia, her family said.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family wrote in a statement posted on the JFK Library Foundation’s Instagram account.
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Schlossberg, a former science and climate reporter for The New York Times, wrote about her diagnosis in a November essay for The New Yorker. Doctors first flagged her illness after detecting an unusually high white blood cell count following the birth of her second child in May 2024, she said in the piece. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she wrote.
In the same essay, Schlossberg criticized her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now serving as health secretary in President Donald Trump’s cabinet, writing that he had curtailed access to vaccines and slashed government medical research spending. “I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,” she wrote.
Schlossberg’s journalism appeared in leading outlets including The Atlantic and Vanity Fair. In 2019 she authored the prize-winning book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have,” which examined how everyday habits drive climate change and resource use. Her reporting blended clear-eyed science with accessible explanations of the choices consumers make, and how those choices intersect with policy and corporate practice.
The daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy, she was part of a younger generation of Kennedys whose public profiles were built more on professional achievement than politics. Friends and colleagues often noted how her work demystified environmental science without sacrificing precision, and how she preferred evidence to rhetoric even when writing about the family name.
Schlossberg is survived by her husband, Dr. George Moran, and their two children.
By Abdiwahab Ahmed
Axadle Times international–Monitoring.
