JOE KENNEDY

Joseph Kennedy III is President at Citizens Energy, a diversified renewable energy non-profit that helps low income families meet their basic needs.

He is also the founder of Groundwork Project, a political advocacy organization dedicated to supporting local community organizing efforts in regions of the country historically under-resourced and disenfranchised.

Joe served as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts 4th congressional district from 2013-2021, where he focused on civil rights and economic justice. Before his election to Congress, he worked as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Middlesex County offices and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic.

Joe was born in Boston and graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He currently serves on numerous non-profit boards, including the Woodwell Climate Research Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health. He is married to Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and they have two young children, Eleanor and James and a rescue dog, Banjo.