General Discussion

John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (born January 19, 1993) is an American writer and political commentator. He has written about politics for several publications and news outlets including Time, Vogue, The Washington Post, New York, and Politico.

His father comes from an Orthodox Jewish family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent from Ukraine, and his mother is a Catholic of Irish, French, Scottish, and English descent. He was raised Catholic, but his mother would also "incorporate Hanukkah" in the family's holiday celebrations.

Schlossberg attended Collegiate School. In eighth grade, he co-founded ReLight New York, a nonprofit organization that installed energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights in low-income housing developments.[11] In 2010, Schlossberg worked in Washington, D.C., as a senate page and the following year, as a senate intern.[12] He then attended Yale University, graduating in 2015 with a degree in history, with a focus on Japanese history.[13] While at Yale, Schlossberg was known to perform stand-up comedy,[1] was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity,[14] and wrote for the Yale Daily News, and The Yale Herald where he was an editor-in-chief.[15]

Schlossberg lived and worked in Japan before enrolling at Harvard University where he graduated from the joint Juris Doctor – Master of Business Administration program at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School in 2022.[16] In February 2023, he passed the New York State bar exam.[17]

In 2015, Schlossberg started working at Rakuten, a Japanese internet and e-commerce company, in Tokyo.[19][12] He also worked at the Japanese distillery Suntory.[12] He met Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, while visiting Sendai accompanying his mother on her duties as US ambassador to Japan.[20] Schlossberg returned to the United States in 2016 to work as a staff assistant in the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.[21] He had a cameo role in the eighth-season finale of the television show Blue Bloods in 2018.[22][23]

Schlossberg began working for Vogue as a political correspondent in 2024 after graduating from Harvard Law School and passing the bar exam.[24][25]

Schlossberg took an increasingly active role in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum where he served as chair of the selection committee for the New Frontier Award until its last and 20th ceremony in 2023.[30][31] Schlossberg has also served as event host, presenter and member of the annual Profile in Courage Award selection committee.[10][32]

In August 2020, Schlossberg gave a virtual address on the second night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention with his mother, Caroline, and endorsed Joe Biden's run for presidency.[33] In 2023, Schlossberg publicly criticized the presidential campaign of his first cousin once removed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and supported Biden’s re-election.[34]

Schlossberg gave his first in-person speech on the second night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he endorsed Kamala Harris.[35] In September 2024, Schlossberg became co-chair of the environmental organization Climate Power's campaign "Too Hot Not to Vote", an initiative designed to "engage, educate and motivate people to vote for climate and clean energy champions” in the 2024 presidential election

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