{"id":319,"date":"2023-10-06T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=319"},"modified":"2023-10-06T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T03:30:47","slug":"joe-kennedy-iii","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/profile\/joe-kennedy-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Kennedy III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph Kennedy III currently serves as the Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs. Over four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. Kennedy built an impressive legislative record around economic policy, health care, and civil rights. Representing a district that spanned from the suburbs of Boston to the proud post-industrial communities along Massachusetts\u2019 South Coast, Mr. Kennedy sat on the House Energy &amp; Commerce committee and spearheaded bipartisan efforts to extend mental health coverage, support the domestic manufacturing industry, protect consumer voices online, make hearing aids more affordable, and defend access to legal assistance for struggling families. Today, Mr. Kennedy also serves as Managing Director at Citizens Energy, a non-profit energy company founded to help low-income families meet their basic energy needs.\u00a0 Through innovative programming, Citizens has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit millions of families across the United States.\u00a0 He is the founder of Groundwork Project, an advocacy organization dedicated to supporting local community organizing efforts in under-resourced and historically disenfranchised communities.\u00a0 He also serves on the boards of the Woodwell Climate Research Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School and spent two years in the United States Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.\u00a0 He is married to Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and they have two young children, Eleanor and James, and a rescue dog, Banjo.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}