Kyle Francis Kennedy, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at 42

Kyle Francis Kennedy, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, died at age 42 on Sept. 21 in Westwood, Massachusetts, according to local officials and her family's obituary. No cause of death was immediately announced. Kennedy was an education reform advocate who taught in New York City through Teach for America and later worked with technology companies on school curricula. After a severe spinal cord injury in 2020 caused long-term paralysis, she became a disability rights advocate, testifying before the Massachusetts legislature on health care discrimination. Her father, Michael Kennedy, died in a 1997 skiing accident, and her grandfather was assassinated in 1968. She was the niece of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and ran the Boston Marathon in 2019.