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, where she lived. 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. She suffered a severe spinal cord injury in 2020 causing long-term paralysis, after which she advocated for disability rights and testified before the Massachusetts legislature on health care discrimination. She was the niece of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her father, Michael Kennedy, died in a 1997 skiing accident, and her grandfather was assassinated in 1968.