Overview
- Her family announced the death on December 30 in a message relayed via the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s social media accounts.
- She died of acute myeloid leukemia, a rapidly progressing blood and bone marrow cancer, which she revealed had been diagnosed in May 2024 shortly after the birth of her second child.
- A climate and environmental reporter, she wrote for the New York Times, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair, and authored a book on consumers’ hidden environmental impacts.
- In her November essay, she described a rare mutation in her disease and criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine skepticism and cuts to medical research.
- She was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, married to physician George Moran, and the mother of two young children, as her brother Jack recently announced a run for the U.S. House.