Who is Tatiana Schlossberg? How JFK inspired a granddaughter he never met to wage war on climate change
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: On May 5, 1990 Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg was born at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City with grandma Jackie living only a few blocks away. A journalist and an author, the granddaughter of the late John F Kennedy is a climate change correspondent and has written for publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic. Schlossberg has also authored a book titled ‘Inconspicuous Consumption’ in 2019.
Tatiana, according to the Daily Mail, has stated that although she was never able to meet her grandfather because of his untimely death years before she was born, she was able to 'connect with him' through his previous speeches and the lessons that he passed down through her mother. She has also consistently credited her grandpa for instilling the same passion for nature in her. "I don't think there is anything that could occupy our attention with more distinction than trying to preserve for those who come after us this beautiful country we have inherited," stated JFK in one of his speeches back in 1962.
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For decades now, the Kennedy family has enamored the American populace. The assassination of JFK in Dallas, Texas, in 1963 only served to heighten interest in the political family. The middle child amongst the three grandchildren, Tatiana, who is now 32, shares her grandfather’s ideas towards climate change and conservation - frequently publishing passionate pieces raging against fast fashion brands and oil companies while highlighting the detrimental effects they have on nature.
Tatiana has acknowledged that growing up in one of the most well-known families in the nation — often referred to as America's royals — was not easy for her because it attracted a lot of unwelcome attention and criticism. However, she has remained unfazed in her ambition to change the world.
In 2019, she told Vanity Fair, "I think his speeches are incredibly powerful. The speech at Rice University about wanting to put a man on the moon is very inspiring to me, and the speech at American University about the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty." She continued, "He talks about the environment - not in terms of climate change, but as an environmental issue of their time, which was nuclear war. He says something like, 'We all breathe the same air, we live on the same small planet, and we all cherish our children’s future.' That’s stuck with me as I’ve tried to do this work for myself."
