Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died at age 35 after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia, according to a family statement shared by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Schlossberg had written publicly in recent months about her diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia, drawing widespread attention and sympathy for her candid reflections on illness, motherhood and mortality. In a first-person essay published in November, she described learning of her cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child in May 2024 and the grueling treatments that followed.
An environmental and climate journalist, Schlossberg previously worked for The New York Times, where she covered topics ranging from climate change and science to local New York stories. She was also the author of the 2019 book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, which examined how everyday consumer habits affect the environment.
Born May 5, 1990, in Manhattan, Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg was the middle child of Caroline Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador, and Edwin Schlossberg, a designer. She attended Yale University and later earned a master’s degree from Oxford University. She married George Moran, a urologist, in 2017, and the couple had two young children.
In her writing about her illness, Schlossberg reflected on the impact her death would have on her family, which has endured decades of high-profile tragedy. Her grandfather was assassinated in November 1963, and her uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999.
Details about memorial services have not been made publicly available, as of this writing. Schlossberg is survived by her parents, her siblings, her husband and her two children.
