Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is an American anti-vaccination activist, environmental attorney, and author. Kennedy is a son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy. He is the president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999.
From 1986 until 2017, Kennedy was a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit environmental organization. From 1984 until 2017, he was a board member and chief prosecuting attorney for Hudson Riverkeeper.
For over thirty years, Kennedy has been an adjunct professor of Environmental Law at Pace University School of Law. Until August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School's Environmental Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987. He is currently professor emeritus at Pace.
Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers and three children's books.
He is a prominent anti-vaccine activist and believes that there is a link between autism and vaccines.
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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.