Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend To Visit SMC February 14-19, 2010
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Former Lt. Governor of Maryland, Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has a long history of accomplishment in the public arena, and for the last six years has been making her mark in the private sector. After two years at Lehman Brothers, she is now a Senior Advisor at a hedge fund run by the former treasurer of the World Bank. In the public sector, she held a variety of roles but also worked on important issues like public safety, improving access to higher education, and the importance of public service. As the Lt. Governor of Maryland, the first woman in this role, Townsend had direct command over a variety of major cabinet departments. In her previous role as U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General, she worked diligently on the Police Corps, a program granting higher education scholarships to those who pledged to work as police officers. Townsend is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue and serves on the boards of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Robert Kennedy Memorial and the Brady Campaign. She is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Mixed God with Politics and Lost Their Way (2007) and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, Harvard University, and St. Mary’s College (MD). She has appeared on Meet the Press, the Colbert Report, Larry King, and Greta VanSusteran. She is the eldest child of U.S. Senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy.
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