In addition to being the second-oldest granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Tatiana Schlossberg is a climate change and environmental journalist.
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg was born in May 1990 to U.S. ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, the only surviving child of JFK and Jackie Kennedy, and artist Edwin Schlossberg. Her older sister, Rose Schlossberg, was born two years earlier, and their younger brother, Jack Schlossberg, was born in 1993.
She’s an author, activist, wife, and mother. However, tragically, she revealed in 2025 that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is working to live the rest of her life with her family by her side.
Below, here’s all we know about Tatiana Schlossberg.
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Tatiana Was Born & Raised in New York
Image Credit: Photo by Michael DWYER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg was born on May 5, 1990, at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.
She was raised Catholic, like her mother, but was immersed in Jewish culture from her father’s side. Caroline told Newsday in 2007 that the family “incorporate Hanukkah” into their holiday celebrations.
Per People, Tatiana the all-girls Brearley School on New York’s Upper East Side, which she attended with sister Rose, and The Trinity School, from which she graduated in 2008.
During her childhood, the family would vacation at the Kennedy’s Martha’s Vineyard estate.
Tatiana had a private childhood but the public got occasional glimpses into her and her siblings’ youth, such as when she served as a flower girl at her uncle John F. Kennedy Jr’s wedding to Carolyn Bessette.
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She Attended Yale & Oxford
Image Credit: Photo by Christy Bowe/Corbis via Getty Images. For her undergraduate studies, Tatiana attended Yale University for a bachelor’s in History. During her time there, she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Herald.
After graduating in 2012, she got her masters in American History from the University of Oxford.
After graduating, she joined The New York Times as an intern in 2014 and was later hired as a reporter for the Metro section. In Oct. 2014, she reported on a dead bear cub found in Central Park which, a decade later, was revealed to have been left there by her mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Like law enforcement, I had no idea who was responsible for this when I wrote the story,” Tatiana told The New York Times in August 2024.
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She’s a Freelance Climate Change Journalist
Image Credit: Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for New York Magazine. Tatiana served as The New York Times’ climate and science writer for a stint that ended in 2017. Her work has also been featured in The Washington Post, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg.
In a candid 2020 essay in Vanity Fair, Tatiana opened up about grappling with whether or not to have children in the face of climate change. “While reporting on climate change and the environment, I have wavered between grief and delusion and anger and willful ignorance about the state of our planet and its future and how we got here,” she wrote.
Currently, she writes a Substack newsletter titled News From a Changing Planet.
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Tatiana Published a Book in 2019
Image Credit: Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images. In 2019, Tatiana published a book called Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have. The book explores the environmental impact of daily human uses such as fashion, food, fuel, the internet and the ways we might not realize we’re damaging the environment.
In 2020, Tatiana won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.
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Tatiana Schlossberg Married Husband George Moran in 2017
Image Credit: Photo by Amber De Vos/Getty Images for goop. On September 9, 2017, Tatiana Schlossberg married her college boyfriend, George Moran, a medical doctor.
They married in Martha’s Vineyard at the Kennedy family estate. It was an intimate ceremony, which was officiated by former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick, per People.
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Tatiana Welcomed a Son in 2022 & a Daughter in 2024
Image Credit: Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images. Tatiana and Moran welcomed a son together in 2022 named Edwin, after her father. Her brother, Jack Schlossberg, confirmed the news to TODAY, saying, “His name is Edwin, but I like to call him Jack.”
In 2024, she welcomed a daughter.
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She Honors Her Grandparents’ Legacy in a Touching Way
Image Credit: Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images. Instead of honoring her grandparents John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy through politics, she does it in a very touching way. She told Vanity Fair in 2019, “My grandparents, both of them, from what I understand, because I didn’t really know them, loved history and reading about history.”
She added, “And that’s kind of how I’ve connected with them, by studying them and their time, but also the eras and patterns that fascinated them, and imagining where we would disagree. That’s an important way for me personally to connect with my family legacy.”
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In 2025, She Revealed She Has Terminal Cancer
Image Credit: WireImage In an essay published by The New Yorker on Nov 22, Tatiana revealed she has acute myeloid leukemia, a terminal cancer they found after she gave birth to her second baby in May 2024. Despite a bone-marrow transplant and chemotherapy, she was told she has a year left to live.
