Kelly Kennedy
Independent Researcher
Kelly Kennedy served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1993, including tours in the Middle East during Desert Storm and in Mogadishu, Somalia. She has worked as a health policy reporter for USA Today and spent five years covering military health at Military Times. Kennedy is the author of They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011) and the co-author of Kate Germano’s Fight Like a Girl: The Truth About How Female Marines are Trained (Prometheus, 2018). In 2010, Kennedy was awarded a John B. Oakes environmental journalism honorary mention for her reporting on burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is also a 2008 Ochberg Fellow, sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma; and a 2008 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Foundation Fellow.
Recent Publications & News
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Virtual Panel Discussion: A Conversation with Women Veteran Authors
Events
By Pamela Brodman, Diane Carlson Evans, Kelly Kennedy, Maggs Vibo, Dr. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie & Nathalie Grogan
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Funding Flows in the Sea of Goodwill
Reports
By Emma Moore, Margaret Seymour, Jared Stefani, Kelly Kennedy & Kayla M. Williams
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