Kennedy received her Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Texas in May of 2020. She currently works in internal communications at Gartner. She previously worked at BK Medical, an organization within GE HealthCare, where she led internal communications strategy and created communications that brought employees closer to the organization’s mission and brand. Prior to this role, she worked in corporate communications at American Airlines and was a copy editor at The Texas Tribune, where she edited breaking news stories, enterprise stories, newsletters and marketing and social media copy.

For two semesters, she served as the co-editor-in-chief at  ORANGE Magazine, a lifestyle and culture publication at UT. Kennedy’s interest in slow journalism guided her decision to temporary suspend ORANGE’s digital content in order to revive it’s biannual print issue that had been defunct for two years. She managed a special project that provided readers an interactive look into ORANGE’s Spring 2020 print issue, The Reactions Issue.

She has interned at Texas Monthly and worked as the executive coordinator at HANNAH Magazine, an independent publication that celebrates Black women. Kennedy was the deputy editor at Polychrome Mag, an independent magazine for creatives of color, that was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign.

Kennedy is an advocate for amplifying voices and overlooked communities. This interest is reflected in her short documentary “Protecting Peckham,” which spotlights a hair salon in South London that nourishes a community in the midst of displacement and gentrification.

She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In her spare time, Kennedy can be found cooking, detangling her hair and expanding her list of dream travel locations.