Tatiana Schlossberg | |
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| Schlossberg in 2024 | |
| Born | Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg May 5, 1990 New York City, U.S. |
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| Spouse | George Moran (m. 2017) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Website | tatianaschlossberg |
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (born May 5, 1990) is an American environmental journalist and author. She was a science and climate reporter for The New York Times, and has also written for several publications and outlets including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and Bloomberg. She is the author of the book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have published by Grand Central Publishing in 2019.
Born and raised in New York City, Schlossberg is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Oxford, where she obtained her master's degree in American history. She is a daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy, and a granddaughter of John F. Kennedy (the 35th president of the United States) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Schlossberg was born at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Lenox Hill, New York, on May 5, 1990, [1] to designer and artist Edwin Schlossberg and author and diplomat Caroline Kennedy. She is a granddaughter of 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. [2]
She and her two siblings, Rose and Jack, were primarily raised in Manhattan's Upper East Side, and also spent significant time at their maternal grandmother Jacqueline's estate on Martha's Vineyard growing up. [3]
Schlossberg's father comes from an Orthodox Jewish family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent from Ukraine, and her mother is a Catholic of Irish, French, Scottish, and English descent. She was raised Catholic, but her mother would also "incorporate Hanukkah" in the family's holiday party. [4] In 1996, she served as a flower girl to her uncle John F. Kennedy Jr.'s wedding. [5]
Schlossberg attended the all-girls Brearley School, which she attended with her sister Rose, and the Trinity School, from which she graduated in 2008. [2] She graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a BA degree in History.
While at Yale, Schlossberg wrote for the Yale Herald and eventually became the paper's editor-in-chief. [2] [6] She was awarded the Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant for her research project, which "explored the communities that grew out of the relationship between runaway slaves and coastal New England Native American tribes, particularly on Martha's Vineyard in the nineteenth century." [7] She was also a member of the senior society Mace and Chain. [8]
Schlossberg went on to receive her master's degree in American history from the University of Oxford in 2014. [9]
After her studies, Schlossberg had an internship at the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Massachusetts, and she became a municipal reporter at The Record in New Jersey. [7]
In 2014, she became a summer intern of The 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 in Central 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 the Times until she left the paper in 2017. [13] [2]
In 2019, Schlossberg published her debut book, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, released in August 2019 by Grand Central Publishing. [14] [15] [16] In 2020, the book won first place in the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. [17]
Schlossberg has taken part in presenting the annual Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, [18] and has accompanied her mother Caroline in her engagements as ambassador in Japan and Australia. [19]
Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of her grandfather John F. Kennedy, in 2013, Schlossberg delivered remarks and took part in a ceremonial wreath-laying ceremony at his memorial at Runnymede in Surrey, which had been unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II and Schlossberg's grandmother Jacqueline 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 with acute myeloid leukemia. On November 22, 2025, Schlossberg revealed in a New Yorker essay she wrote that her acute myeloid leukemia had now been diagnosed as a form of terminal cancer, with a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy at home and even a clinical trial of CAR-T cell therapy being unable to weaken the leukemia, and that doctors have told her that she has one year to live. [24] [25] [26] [27]