Kara Kennedy Allen Information
Kara Kennedy Allen (born February 27, 1960) is a professional board member and a television producer. She is the oldest child and only daughter of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy from Massachusetts and a member of the Kennedy family.
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Early life and education
She was born Kara Anne Kennedy to Virginia Joan (née Bennett) Kennedy and Edward Moore Kennedy, Sr. in Bronxville, New York. Her siblings are Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr. (born 1961), and Patrick Joseph Kennedy II (born 1967). She graduated from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.[1]
Career
Allen is a producer for VSA arts, formerly known as Very Special Arts, a non-profit organization founded by her aunt Jean Kennedy Smith that supports arts opportunities for the disabled.
She is on the National Advisory Board of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.[2] She is also a director emerita and a national trustee of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation,[3] a non-profit organization that provides financial support, staffing, and creative resources for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the presidential library and museum of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts.
She was previously a producer for the television program Evening Magazine at station WBZ-TV in Boston.[1]
Personal life
In September 1990, she and Michael Allen, a professional sailor, were married at the Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts, a frequent site of Kennedy family events. Kara, when married, dropped her middle name "Anne" and replaced it with her maiden name "Kennedy" as her new middle name.[1] They have two children: Grace Kennedy Allen (born September 19, 1994, in Washington, D.C.) and Max Greathouse Allen (born December 20, 1996, in Rockville, Maryland).
In 2002, at age 42, Allen was diagnosed with lung cancer. Initially told the disease was inoperable, she found — with her father's help — a surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who was willing to remove part of her lung in an effort to save her life. As of 2010, she remains in remission from the disease.[4]
On August 12, 2009, Allen accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on behalf of her father at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Her father died thirteen days later; he had been diagnosed with brain cancer in May 2008.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Staff writer (1990-09-09). "Kara Kennedy Wed to Michael Allen". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/09/style/kara-kennedy-wed-to-michael-allen.html. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ^ "NOFAS Board of Directors 2009". National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Undated. http://www.nofas.org/about/directors.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ^ "Directors Emeriti and National Trustees". John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Undated. http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK+Library+and+Museum/Kennedy+Library+Foundation/Board+of+Directors/Directors+Emeriti+and+National+Trustees.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ^ Jacobs, Sally (2008-05-25). "Kennedy, His Children, and Cancer — He Helped Them Beat It, but Now the Fight Is His". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/05/25/kennedy_his_children_and_cancer/. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ^ Globe Staff (2009-08-13). "Kennedy Is Among 16 Honored by Obama — Ailing Senator Gets Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/08/13/kennedy_is_among_16_honored_by_obama/. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
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| Name | Kennedy, Kara |
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| Date of birth | 1960-02-27 |
| Place of birth | Bronxville, New York, United States |
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Categories: 1960 births | American people of Irish descent | Kennedy family | Ted Kennedy | American Roman Catholics | Living people | Lung cancer survivors | People from Westchester County, New York | Tufts University alumni
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